Acanthamoeba produces disseminated infection in locusts and traverses the locust blood-brain barrier to invade the central nervous system

BACKGROUND: Many aspects of Acanthamoeba granulomatous encephalitis remain poorly understood, including host susceptibility and chronic colonization which represent important features of the spectrum of host-pathogen interactions. Previous studies have suggested locusts as a tractable model in which...

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Autores principales: Mortazavi, Parisa N, Goldsworthy, Graham, Kirk, Ruth, Khan, Naveed A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20615207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-186