Leishmaniasis: Complexity at the host-pathogen interface

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 604-615

  Kaye, Paul ^a   Scott, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; DENDRITIC CELL; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODIDAE; REVIEW; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOSOMES; PSYCHODIDAE;

PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79960392640     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2608     Document Type: Review

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