Screening Leishmania donovani-specific genes required for visceral infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 505-517

  Zhang, Wen Wei ^a   Matlashewski, Greg ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VISCERA;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION; VIRULENCE; VISCERA;

EID: 77954375566     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07230.x     Document Type: Article

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