Antigenicity of recombinant proteins derived from rhoptry-associated protein 1 of Plasmodium falciparum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1037-1044

  Fonjungo, Peter N ^a   Stüber, Dietrich ^b   McBride, Jana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; MALARIA VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0031911176     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1037-1044.1998     Document Type: Article

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