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The genome of the heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, reveals drug and vaccine targets

The heartworm Dirofilaria immitis is an important parasite of dogs. Transmitted by mosquitoes in warmer climatic zones, it is spreading across southern Europe and the Americas at an alarming pace. There is no vaccine, and chemotherapy is prone to complications. To learn more about this parasite, we...

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Autores principales: Godel, Christelle, Kumar, Sujai, Koutsovoulos, Georgios, Ludin, Philipp, Nilsson, Daniel, Comandatore, Francesco, Wrobel, Nicola, Thompson, Marian, Schmid, Christoph D., Goto, Susumu, Bringaud, Frédéric, Wolstenholme, Adrian, Bandi, Claudio, Epe, Christian, Kaminsky, Ronald, Blaxter, Mark, Mäser, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22889830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-205096