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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 2(1) January 2008
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Fluorescent Hookworm Top
Infective third-stage larvae of the dog hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, can be tricked into thinking they have infected a mammalian host by adding serum during in vitro culture, by a process called "activation." This image shows ingestion of fluorescein-tagged serum albumin by activated A. caninum larvae, causing the intestine of the worm to fluoresce. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Bennett Datu and colleagues describe the genes that are upregulated by hookworm larvae during the transition from a free-living to a parasitic state (see Datu et al., e130).
Image Credit: Bennett Datu
Citation: (2008) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 2(1) January 2008. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2(1): ev02.i01. doi:10.1371/image.pntd.v02.i01
Published: January 30, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Datu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Infective third-stage larvae of the dog hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, can be tricked into thinking they have infected a mammalian host by adding serum during in vitro culture, by a process called "activation." This image shows ingestion of fluorescein-tagged serum albumin by activated A. caninum larvae, causing the intestine of the worm to fluoresce. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Bennett Datu and colleagues describe the genes that are upregulated by hookworm larvae during the transition from a free-living to a parasitic state (see Datu et al., e130).
Image Credit: Bennett Datu
doi:10.1371/image.pntd.v02.i01.g001
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