Single copy Babesia microti hsp70

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-246

  Hyun Bae, Jie ^a   Bailey, Craig W ^a   Ray, Bimal K ^a   Estes, D Mark ^a   Kumar, Nirbhay ^b   Carson, C Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; babesiosis; heat shock protein; hsp70; human babesiosis

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BABESIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI;

EID: 0030596204     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02767-3     Document Type: Article

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