Investigations into human serum sensitivity expressed by stocks of Trypanosoma brucei evansi

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 705-710

  Lai, De Hua ^a   Wang, Qiao Ping ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Luckins, Antony G ^b   Reid, Simon A ^c   Lun, Zhao Rong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal and human infection; Normal human serum (NHS); Serum resistance associated (SRA) gene; Trypanolytic assay; Trypanosoma brucei evansi; Trypanosome incubation infectivity test (TIIT)

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTIVITY; INOCULATION; PATHOGEN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RELAPSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICE; PARASITEMIA; RECURRENCE; SERIAL PASSAGE; SERUM; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 77951297615     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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