Trichomonas vaginalis: Evaluating capsid proteins of dsRNA viruses and the dsRNA virus within patients attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 44-50

  Alderete, J F ^a   Wendel, K A ^b,d,f   Rompalo, A M ^b,c,d   Erbelding, E J ^b,d   Benchimol, M ^e   Chang, T H ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Eastern Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dsRNA virus; Patients; Sexually transmitted diseases; Trichomonas vaginalis; Urogenital; Vaginal

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; CAPSID PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PYROXYLIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENETICS; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA VIRUS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VIROLOGY;

DSRNA VIRUSES; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RNA VIRUSES; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0037810351     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00068-7     Document Type: Article

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