Longicin plays a crucial role in inhibiting the transmission of Babesia parasites in the vector tick Haemaphysalis longicornis

Future Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 575-578

  Tsuji, Naotoshi ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; LONGICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INVASION; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; HOST CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TICK;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; IXODIDAE; TICKS;

BABESIA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 37549061027     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.2.6.575     Document Type: Editorial

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