Cloning and characterization of a gene encoding a novel immunodominant antigen of Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-204

  Lesénéchal, Mylène ^a   Duret, Laurent ^b   Cano, Maria Isabel ^c   Mortara, Renato A ^c   Jolivet, Michel ^a   Camargo, Mario E ^d   Da Silveira, José Franco ^c   Paranhos Baccalà, Gláucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Biométrie CNRS URA 2055   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Biolab Merieux S/A   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cloning; Immunodominant antigen; T. cruzi

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030871350     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00068-6     Document Type: Article

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