Drosophila melanogaster as a Versatile Model for Studying Medically Important Insect Vector-Borne Parasites

1 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, 2 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia, 3 Department of Pharmacy, BGC Trust University Bangladesh, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 4 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5 Department of Rasashastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

• Publication date

  2022-06-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fcimb.2022.939813PMID 35719344PMCID 9201246
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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