Can the host immune system promote multiple invasions of erythrocytes in vivo? Differential effects of medication and host sex in a wild malaria-like model

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 651-655

  Martinez De La Puente J ^a   Merino, S ^a   Tomas G ^a   Moreno, J ^a   Morales, J ^a   Lobato, E ^a   Garcia Fraile S ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Haemoproteus; Host immunity; Host parasite interactions; Malaria; Multiple invasions; Plasmodium; Sexual differences

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PRIMAQUINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOWL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERINFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; PRIMAQUINE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS;

EID: 34249724503     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118200600196X     Document Type: Article

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