Novel target antigens of the variant-specific immune response to Plasmodium falciparum identified by differential screening of an expression library

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 64-73

  Le Scanf, Cécile ^a   Fandeur, Thierry ^a   Bonnefoy, Serge ^b   Guillotte, Micheline ^b   Mercereau Puijalon, Odile ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032918007     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.1.64-73.1999     Document Type: Article

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