Ultrastructure of the asexual blood stages of plasmodium falciparum

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 93-116

  Hanssen, Eric ^a   Goldie, Kenneth N ^b   Tilley, Leann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; BOOK; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77956997704     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96005-6     Document Type: Book

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