Taenia ovis: Copy number of genes encoding host-protective antigens determined by competitive PCR

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-88

  Waterkeyn, Jacqueline G ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^b   Lightowlers, Marshall W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cestoda; competitive PCR; cysticercosis; gene copy number; vaccine antigens

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CESTODE; DENSITOMETRY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC CODE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAENIASIS; TAPEWORM INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA;

CESTODA; OVIS; TAENIA OVIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0031149720     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4157     Document Type: Article

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