Host cell deformability is linked to transmission in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 983-993

  Aingaran, Mythili ^a   Zhang, Rou ^b   Law, Sue Kayee ^a   Peng, Zhangli ^c   Undisz, Andreas ^c   Meyer, Evan ^a   Diez Silva, Monica ^c   Burke, Thomas A ^a   Spielmann, Tobias ^d   Lim, Chwee Teck ^b   Suresh, Subra ^c   Dao, Ming ^c   Marti, Matthias ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL MATURATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; GAMETOCYTE; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84862546887     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01786.x     Document Type: Article

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