In vitro sensitivity testing of Leishmania clinical field isolates: Preconditioning of promastigotes enhances infectivity for macrophage host cells

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5197-5203

  Da Luz, Raquel Inocêncio ^a   Vermeersch, Marieke ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^b   Cos, Paul ^a   Maes, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; ANTIMONY TARTRATE; MILTEFOSINE; PX 6518; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PH; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SAPONINS; TEMPERATURE; TRITERPENES;

EID: 71249145631     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00866-09     Document Type: Article

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