A recombinant protein based on the Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic trypomastigote 82-kilodalton antigen that induces an effective immune response to acute infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1093-1099

  Santori, Fabio R ^a   Paranhos Bacalla, Glaucia S ^b   Da Silveira, José Franco ^a   Yamauchi, Lucy M ^a   Araya, Jorge E ^a,c   Yoshida, Nobuko ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 82; HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0029976053     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.4.1093-1099.1996     Document Type: Article

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