Toxoplasmosis

Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 732-743

  Boothroyd, J C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DHFR; dihydrofolate reductase; GAG; glycosaminoglycan; HXGPRTase; hypoxanthine xanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase; IL12; interleukin 12; intraparasitophorous vacuolar network; IPN; parasitophorous vacuole membrane; PVM; restriction fragment length polymorphism; RFLP; signal transducers and activators of transcription; STAT; thrombospondin related anonymous protein; TRAP; UPRTase; uracil phosphoribosyl transferase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856046486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373944-5.00210-8     Document Type: Chapter

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