Interactions between trypanosomes and tsetse flies

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-351

  Roditi, Isabel ^a   Lehane, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; CHITIN; DEFENSIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

DISEASE CARRIER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENESIS; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SIALOADENITIS; SYMBIONT; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 48749131672     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2008.06.006     Document Type: Review

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