A dysflagellar mutant of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis isolated from a cutaneous leishmaniasis patient

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zauli, Rogéria C ^a   Yokoyama Yasunaka, Jenicer K U ^a   Miguel, Danilo C ^a   Moura, Alexandre S ^a   Pereira, Ledice I A ^b   Da Silva, Ildefonso A ^b   Lemes, Lucianna G N ^b   Dorta, Miriam L ^b   De Oliveira, Milton A P ^b   Pitaluga, André N ^c   Ishikawa, Edna A Y ^d   Rodrigues, Juliany C F ^e   Traub Cseko, Yara M ^c   Bijovsky, A ^a   Ribeiro Dias, Fátima ^b   Uliana, Silvia R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

electron microscopy.; flagellum; Leishmania; mutant

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL CULTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLAGELLUM; FLY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROMASTIGOTE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PSYCHODIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MURINAE; MUS; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 84855569091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-11     Document Type: Article

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