Characterization of DNA sequences that confer complement resistance in Leishmania chagasi

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 347-351

  Dahlin Laborde, Rebecca R ^a   Scolaro, Eric J ^a   Romine, Nathan M ^a   Ramer Tait, Amanda E ^a   Lei, Soi Meng ^a   Beetham, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complement; Immunity; Leishmania; Leishmania chagasi; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROMASTIGOTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; COMPLEMENT MEDIATED LYSIS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME; IMMUNITY; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHENOTYPE; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSYCHODIDAE; RNA PROCESSING;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 57849127335     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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