Human red blood cell-adapted Plasmodium knowlesi parasites: A new model system for malaria research

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 612-620

  Grüring, Christof ^a   Moon, Robert W ^b   Lim, Caeul ^a   Holder, Anthony A ^b   Blackman, Michael J ^b   Duraisingh, Manoj T ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; MALARIA VACCINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; ERYTHROCYTE; GAMETOCYTE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SPOROZOITE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; HISTORY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MACACA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MACACA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; SIMIAE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACACA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

EID: 84898542921     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12275     Document Type: Review

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