The Leishmania infantum PUF proteins are targets of the humoral response during visceral leishmaniasis

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Folgueira, Cristina ^a   Martínez Bonet, Marta ^a   Requena, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 77949511870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-13     Document Type: Article

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