Cloning of genes and expression and antigenicity analysis of the Leishmania infantum KMP-11 protein

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-108

  Berberich, Christof ^a   Requena, José Maria ^a   Alonso, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0031001121     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.4120     Document Type: Article

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