Circumsporozoite proteins of malaria parasites contain a single immunodominant region with two or more identical epitopes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 1983, Pages 1947-1957

  Zavala, Fidel ^a   Cochrane, Alan H ^a   Nardin, Elizabeth H ^a   Nussenzweig, Ruth S ^a   Nussenzweig, Victor ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOON; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; MACACA MULATTA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEINS;

EID: 0020620942     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.157.6.1947     Document Type: Article

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