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ORGANISM(S): Toxoplasma gondii
SUBMITTER: Ninghan Yang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-44246 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Yang Ninghan N Farrell Andrew A Niedelman Wendy W Melo Mariane M Lu Diana D Julien Lindsay L Marth Gabor T GT Gubbels Marc-Jan MJ Saeij Jeroen P J JP
BMC genomics 20130710
<h4>Background</h4>Toxoplasma gondii has a largely clonal population in North America and Europe, with types I, II and III clonal lineages accounting for the majority of strains isolated from patients. RH, a particular type I strain, is most frequently used to characterize Toxoplasma biology. However, compared to other type I strains, RH has unique characteristics such as faster growth, increased extracellular survival rate and inability to form orally infectious cysts. Thus, to identify candida ...[more]