Novel insights into an old disease: Recent developments in scabies mite biology

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 110-115

  Holt, Deborah C ^a   Fischer, Katja ^b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complement; Genome; Host defence evasion; Host specificity; Sarcoptes scabiei

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PERITROPHIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEMODEX; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOME; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PYODERMA; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES;

ANIMALS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES;

EID: 84874940294     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e32835eb986     Document Type: Review

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