Toxoplasma gondii strains defective in oral transmission are also defective in developmental stage differentiation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2580-2590

  Fux, Blima ^a   Nawas, Julie ^a   Khan, Asis ^a   Gill, Darcy B ^a   Su, Chunlei ^a,b   Sibley, L David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PLANT LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BRADYZOITE; CELL LINEAGE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOLICHOS; DOLICHOS BIFLORUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATS; CELL WALL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; PEPSIN A; RATS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 34248382112     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00085-07     Document Type: Article

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