Antigenic variation in Giardia lamblia

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1706-1715

  Prucca, Cesar G ^a   Lujan, Hugo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MICRORNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SPECIFIC SURFACE PROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 72749128102     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01367.x     Document Type: Review

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