Comparative real-time kinetic analysis of human complement killing of Leishmania infantum promastigotes derived from axenic culture or from Phlebotomus perniciosus

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 1574-1580

  Moreno, Inmaculada ^a   Molina, Ricardo ^a   Toraño, Alfredo ^a   Laurin, Edurne ^a   García, Esther ^a   Domínguez, Mercedes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complement; Leishmania infantum; Promastigotes; Sand flies

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN U937; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIABILITY; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SERUM; SPLEEN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CRICETINAE; CULTURE MEDIA; DOGS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MESOCRICETUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; U937 CELLS;

CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS;

EID: 36749048148     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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