A polymerase chain reaction method for the identification of genes encoding members of the Bv60/p58 family of rhoptry protein homologues in the genus Babesia

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 96-100

  Dalrymple, Brian P ^a   Peters, Jennifer M ^a   Böse, Reinhard ^b   Wright, Ian G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHOPTRY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA;

EID: 0030272338     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0094     Document Type: Article

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