A strategy for the identification of T-cell epitopes on Leishmania cysteine proteinases

Cytobios

Volumn 2000, Issue 405, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Alves, C R ^a   Pontes De Carvalho, L C ^a   Souza, A L A ^a   Giovanni De Simone, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteinases; Human leucocyte associated antigen; Leishmania; Multiple sequence alignment; T cell epitope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346742532     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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