Identification of potential vaccine and drug target candidates by expressed sequence tag analysis and immunoscreening of Onchocerca volvulus larval cDNA libraries

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3491-3501

  Lizotte Waniewski, Michelle ^a,b   Tawe, Wilson ^c   Guiliano, David B ^d   Lu, Wenhong ^a,b   Liu, Jing ^c   Williams, Steven A ^a,b   Lustigman, Sara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FILARICIDES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL; UP-REGULATION; VACCINES;

EID: 0034115183     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.6.3491-3501.2000     Document Type: Article

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