Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii SAG2 expressed in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus and evaluation of its diagnostic potential in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1343-1347

  Huang, Xiaohong ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^a   Nagasawa, Hideyuki ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a   Mikami, Takeshi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SAG 2; REAGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CAT; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENATURATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INSECT CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SERUM; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SPODOPTERA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0036842556     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.6.1343-1347.2002     Document Type: Article

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