Novel insights into the transcriptome of Dirofilaria immitis.

BACKGROUND: The heartworm Dirofilaria immitis is the causal agent of cardiopulmonary dirofilariosis in dogs and cats, and also infects a wide range of wild mammals as well as humans. One bottleneck for the design of fundamentally new intervention and management strategies against D. immitis may be t...

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Main Authors: Yan Fu, Jingchao Lan, Zhihe Zhang, Rong Hou, Xuhang Wu, Deying Yang, Runhui Zhang, Wanpeng Zheng, Huaming Nie, Yue Xie, Ning Yan, Zhi Yang, Chengdong Wang, Li Luo, Li Liu, Xiaobin Gu, Shuxian Wang, Xuerong Peng, Guangyou Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3402454?pdf=render