Designing blood-stage vaccines against Babesia bovis and B. bigemina

Parasitology Today

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 275-281

  Brown, Wendy C ^a   Palmer, Guy H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; NITRIC OXIDE; VACCINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EPITOPES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ACARI; BABESIA BOVIS; BOS TAURUS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033168163     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01471-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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