Malaria crystalloids: Specialized structures for parasite transmission?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 106-110

  Dessens, Johannes T ^a   Saeed, Sadia ^a   Tremp, Annie Z ^a   Carter, Victoria ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LCCL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOID; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC STRUCTURES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952104019     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.12.004     Document Type: Review

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