Babesia microti primarily invades mature erythrocytes in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3204-3212

  Borggraefe, Ingo ^a,e   Yuan, Jie ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^d   Menon, Sanjay ^a   Hunter, Rouette ^a   Shah, Sohela ^b   Spielman, Andrew ^c   Gelfand, Jeffrey A ^b   Wortis, Henry H ^b   Vannier, Edouard ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4',6' DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; CD71 ANTIGEN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN YOYO 1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INBRED STRAIN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SCID MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BABESIA MICROTI; BENZOXAZOLES; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, SCID; QUINOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS;

EID: 33646943209     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01560-05     Document Type: Article

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