Dictionary of Parasitology

Dictionary of Parasitology

The authors’ intent in writing this dictionary is to provide a concise, clear, up-to-date, accurate use of terms to be used when communicating scientific information in the field of parasitology. This exhaustive text, with more than 11,500 entries, is at first read simply an alphabetized collection of names of organisms and terms associated with the science of parasitology. Upon closer reading,...

Parasitology

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Experimental Parasitology

Buckling, A., Crooks, L., and Read A. 1999. Plasmodium chabaudi: Effect of antimalarial drugs on gametocytogenesis. Experimental Parasitology 93, 45–54. The proportion of asexual blood-stage malaria parasites that develop into transmission stages (gametocytes) can increase in response to stress. We investigated whether stress imposed by a variety of antimalarial drugs administered before or dur...

Experimental Parasitology

Wen, L.-M., Xu, P., Benegal, G., Carvaho, M. R. C., Butler, D. R., and Buck, G. A. 2001. Trypanosoma cruzi: Exogenously regulated gene expression. Experimental Parasitology 97, 196–204. A regulated expression vector would provide a strong tool for the dissection of gene function in Trypanosoma cruzi. Herein, we establish a system in which genes in T. cruzi expression vectors can be exogenously ...

Systematic parasitology