Cloning and expression of a putative alcohol dehydrogenase gene of Entamoeba histolytica and its application to immunological examination

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 270-274

  Kimura, Akio ^a   Hara, Yoshihiro ^a   Kimoto, Tatsuo ^a   Okuno, Yoshinobu ^a   Minekawa, Yoshiichi ^a   Nakabayashi, Toshio ^b  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMEBIASIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029972940     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.3.3.270-274.1996     Document Type: Article

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