Toxoplasma: the next 100 years

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 978-984

  Kim, Kami ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Cell biology; Epigenetics; Genetics; Proteomics; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINITIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CYTOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; CTENODACTYLIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 53449094546     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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