Arginase activity in pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Leishmania parasites

Alireza Badirzadeh; Tahereh Taheri; Yasaman Taslimi; Zahra Abdossamadi; Maryam Heidari-Kharaji; Elham Gholami; Baharehsadat Sedaghat; Maryam Niyyati; Sima Rafati

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005774

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Arginase activity in pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Leishmania parasites

Alireza Badirzadeh,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Tahereh Taheri,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Yasaman Taslimi,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Zahra Abdossamadi,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Maryam Heidari-Kharaji,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Elham Gholami,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Baharehsadat Sedaghat,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Maryam Niyyati,

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Sima Rafati

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: s_rafati@yahoo.com, Sima-rafatisy@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-1320

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Arginase activity in pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Leishmania parasites

Alireza Badirzadeh,
Tahereh Taheri,
Yasaman Taslimi,
Zahra Abdossamadi,
Maryam Heidari-Kharaji,
Elham Gholami,
Baharehsadat Sedaghat,
Maryam Niyyati,
Sima Rafati

Published: July 14, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005774

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