Trypanosoma brucei: Generation of specific antisera to recombinant variant surface glycoproteins

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-202

  Hoek, Maarten ^a   Xu, Hui ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032796531     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4369     Document Type: Article

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