Apoptotic induction induces Leishmania aethiopica and L. mexicana spreading in terminally differentiated THP-1 cells

Leishmaniasis develops after parasites establish themselves as amastigotes inside mammalian cells and start replicating. As relatively few parasites survive the innate immune defence, intracellular amastigotes spreading towards uninfected cells is instrumental to disease progression. Nevertheless th...

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Main Authors: Rai, Rajeev, Dyer, Paul, Richardson, Simon, Harbige, Laurence S., Getti, Giulia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3764/1/Parasitology%202017.pdf