Sequence analysis of a gene family encoding Taenia ovis vaccine antigens expressed during embryogenesis of eggs

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-84

  Waterkeyn, Jacqueline ^a,b   Gauci, Charles ^a,b   Cowman, Alan ^a,b   Lightowlers, Marshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

embryogenesis; gene family; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Taenia ovis; vaccine antigens

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAENIA OVIS; TAENIASIS; WORM EGG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; TAENIA; VACCINES;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; OVIS; TAENIA OVIS;

EID: 0031007918     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)02851-X     Document Type: Article

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