The coming-out of malaria gametocytes

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kuehn, Andrea ^a   Pradel, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOON; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TROPICAL DISEASE; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE;

HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 77950365362     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/976827     Document Type: Review

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