ROP18 is a key factor responsible for virulence difference between Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lei, Tao ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Nan, Huizhu ^a   Liu, Qun ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IMMUNITY RELATED GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHOPTRY PROTEIN 18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSEUDOGENE; STOP CODON; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COCCIDIOSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84902796036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099744     Document Type: Article

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