Two antigens on zygotes and ookinetes of Plasmodium yoelii and Plasmodium berghei that are distinct targets of transmission-blocking immunity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2260-2264

  Tsuboi, Takafumi ^a   Cao, Ya Ming ^a   Hitsumoto, Yasuo ^a   Yanagi, Tetsuo ^b   Kanbara, Hiroji ^b   Torii, Motomi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030997326     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2260-2264.1997     Document Type: Article

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