Evaluation of high efficiency gene knockout strategies for Trypanosoma cruzi.

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Published in BMC Microbiol on May 11, 2009

Authors

Dan Xu1, Cecilia Pérez Brandán, Miguel Angel Basombrío, Rick L Tarleton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. dxu@uga.edu

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