Genetic and antigenic characterization of Babesia bovis merozoite spherical body protein Bb-1

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 149-159

  Hines, Stephen A ^a   Palmer, Guy H ^a   Brown, Wendy C ^b   McElwain, Terry F ^a   Suarez, Carlos E ^a   Vidotto, Odillon ^a   Rice Ficht, Allison C ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic polymorphism; Apicomplexa; Babesia apical complex; Dense granule; Th1 epitope

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSE BODY; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA BOVIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0028909818     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(94)00200-7     Document Type: Article

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