Giardia intestinalis: Conservation of the variant-specific surface protein VSP417-1 (TSA417) and identification of a divergent homologue encoded at a duplicated locus in genetic group II isolates

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 250-261

  Ey, Peter L ^a   Darby, Jocelyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Genotypes; Giardia intestinalis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TROPHOZOITE;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032212510     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4325     Document Type: Article

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