Stress-driven stage transformation of Neospora caninum

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1009-1014

  Eastick, Faye A ^a   Elsheikha, Hany M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BRADYZOITE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CYST; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; TACHYZOITE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; NEOSPORA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 77953289728     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1788-z     Document Type: Review

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