OvB20, an Onchocerca volvulus -cloned antigen selected by differential immunoscreening with vaccination serum in a cattle model of onchocerciasis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 187-199

  Abdel Wahab, Nadia ^a,d   Kuo, Yien Ming ^a,e   Wu, Yang ^b   Tuan, Rocky S ^c   Bianco, Albert E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential immunoscreening; Irradiated larvae; Larval antigen; Onchocerca lienalis; Onchocerca volvulus; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IRRADIATION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; FILARIA; ONCHOCERCA LIENALIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030004476     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(95)02558-8     Document Type: Article

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