Acanthamoeba produces disseminated infection in locusts and traverses the locust blood-brain barrier to invade the central nervous system

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mortazavi, Parisa N ^a   Goldsworthy, Graham ^a   Kirk, Ruth ^b   Khan, Naveed A ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA ENCEPHALITIS; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL INVASION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCUST; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERINEURIUM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; HUMAN; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRASSHOPPERS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77954276888     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-186     Document Type: Article

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