Transfection of live, tick derived sporozoites of the protozoan Apicomplexan parasite Theileria parva

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 208, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 238-241

  De Goeyse, Ine ^a   Jansen, Famke ^a   Madder, Maxime ^a   Hayashida, Kyoko ^b   Berkvens, Dirk ^a   Dobbelaere, Dirk ^c   Geysen, Dirk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nucleofection; Sporozoites; Theileria parva; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLASMID DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN INFECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL CLONE; CLONOGENESIS; EAST COAST FEVER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SPOROZOITE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THEILERIA PARVA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA; THEILERIA; THEILERIA PARVA;

GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES; THEILERIA PARVA; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84923338449     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2015.01.013     Document Type: Article

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