Visualization of malaria parasites in the skin using the luciferase transgenic parasite, Plasmodium berghei

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 53-61

  Matsuoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Tomita, Hiroyuki ^a   Hattori, Ryuta ^a   Arai, Meiji ^a,b   Hirai, Makoto ^a,c  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imaging; Luciferase; Malaria; Probing; Skin stage; Sporozoite

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEAT TREATMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE;

EID: 84925326278     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2014-18     Document Type: Article

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