Sialidases play a key role in infection and anaemia in Trypanosoma congolense animal trypanosomiasis

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-445

  Coustou, Virginie ^a,b   Plazolles, Nicolas ^a,b   Guegan, Fabien ^a,b   Baltz, Théo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIDASE; TRYPANOSOMA VACCINE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; HEREDITY; IMMUNIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; VIRULENCE;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICE; NEURAMINIDASE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 84857440165     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01730.x     Document Type: Article

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