Identification of abundantly expressed novel and conserved genes from the infective larval stage of Toxocara canis by an expressed sequence tag strategy

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4771-4779

  Tetteh, Kevin K A ^a,c   Loukas, Alex ^a,d   Tripp, Cindy ^b   Maizels, Rick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HESKA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; LECTIN; MUCIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXOCARA CANIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 0032794702     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4771-4779.1999     Document Type: Article

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