Immunogenicity of the recombinant SAPA protein of Trypanosoma cruzi for mice

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-81

  Nasser, Julio R ^a   Gómez, Laura E ^a   Sánchez, Daniel ^a,b   Guerin, Marcelo ^a,b   Basombrío, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MALE; MICE; NEURAMINIDASE; PARASITEMIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030934431     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284320     Document Type: Article

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