Genetic transformation of a Corynebacterial symbiont from the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-98

  Durvasula, Ravi V ^a   Sundaram, Ranjini K ^a   Kirsch, Philipp ^c   Hurwitz, Ivy ^a   Crawford, Carl V ^a   Dotson, Ellen ^b   Beard, Charles B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c APTIV   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

BHI; brain heart infusion; Chagas disease; Corynebacteria; Paratransgenesis; PBS; PCR; phosphate buffered saline; polymerase chain reaction; rDNA; ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; INSECT VECTORS; NYMPH; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 41549139524     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.12.020     Document Type: Article

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