Asexual expansion of Toxoplasma gondii merozoites is distinct from tachyzoites and entails expression of non-overlapping gene families to attach, invade, and replicate within feline enterocytes

BACKGROUND: The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is cosmopolitan in nature, largely as a result of its highly flexible life cycle. Felids are its only definitive hosts and a wide range of mammals and birds serve as intermediate hosts. The latent bradyzoite stage is orally infectious in all wa...

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Autores principales: Hehl, Adrian B, Basso, Walter U, Lippuner, Christoph, Ramakrishnan, Chandra, Okoniewski, Michal, Walker, Robert A, Grigg, Michael E, Smith, Nicholas C, Deplazes, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25757795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1225-x

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