High-Throughput Chemical Screening for Antivirulence Developmental Phenotypes in Trypanosoma brucei
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High-Throughput Chemical Screening for Antivirulence Developmental Phenotypes in Trypanosoma brucei
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عنوان ژورنال: Eukaryotic Cell
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1535-9778,1535-9786
DOI: 10.1128/ec.00335-13