A Plasmodium falciparum strain expressing GFP throughout the parasite's life-cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Talman, Arthur M ^a   Blagborough, Andrew M ^a   Sinden, Robert E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 77949374916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009156     Document Type: Article

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