Host cells participate in the in vitro effects of novel diamidine analogues against tachyzoites of the intracellular apicomplexan parasites Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1999-2008

  Leepin, Angela ^a   Stüdli, Angela ^b   Brun, Reto ^b   Stephens, Chad E ^c   Boykin, David W ^c   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,5 BIS(4 AMIDINOPHENYL)FURAN; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; DB 750; DB 766; DB 786; DB 811; DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOST CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FIBROBLASTS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEOSPORA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENTAMIDINE; TOXOPLASMA; VERO CELLS;

EID: 44449115121     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01236-07     Document Type: Article

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