Babesia bovis rhoptry-associated protein 1 is immunodominant for T helper cells of immune cattle and contains T-cell epitopes conserved among geographically distant B. bovis strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3341-3350

  Brown, Wendy C ^a,b,c   McElwain, Terry F ^b   Ruef, Barbara J ^a   Suarez, Carlos E ^b   Shkap, Vard A ^c   Chitko McKown, Carol G ^a   Tuo, Wenbin ^b   Rice Ficht, Allison C ^d   Palmer, Guy H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAMNESIS; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BABESIA; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030016904     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3341-3350.1996     Document Type: Article

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