Toll road for Toxoplasma gondii: the mystery continues

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-3

  Khan, Imtiaz A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

DISEASE SEVERITY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33845694061     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2006.10.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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