Wolbachia filarial interactions

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 520-526

  Taylor, Mark J ^a   Voronin, Denis ^a   Johnston, Kelly L ^a   Ford, Louise ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN ASSOCIATED LIPOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELL LINEAGE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DIROFILARIASIS; ELEPHANTIASIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LONGEVITY; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FILARIOIDEA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FILARIOIDEA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84874990154     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12084     Document Type: Article

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