Transgenic Plasmodium knowlesi: relieving a bottleneck in malaria research?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 370-374

  Kocken, Clemens H M ^a   Zeeman, Anne Marie ^a   Voorberg van der Wel, Annemarie ^a   Thomas, Alan W ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTEOMICS; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALARIA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIMATES;

EID: 67949095959     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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