A novel 95-kilodalton antigen of Wuchereria bancrofti infective larvae identified by species-specific monoclonal antibodies

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 485-488

  Burkot, Thomas R ^a,c   Kwan Lim, Gek Eng ^a,d   Maizels, Rick M ^b,e  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILARIASIS; LARVA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VECTOR CONTROL; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0030032094     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.485-488.1996     Document Type: Article

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