Immune responses and parasite transmission in blood-feeding insects

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 433-439

  Lehane, Michael J ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^b   Levashina, Elena ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ATTACIN; CECROPIN; DEFENSIN; DIPTERICIN; DROSOCIN; DROSOMYCIN; METCHNIKOWIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOSSINA; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSECT; INSECT GENETICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 6044227865     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.07.002     Document Type: Review

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