Protective immunity against Toxoplasma gondii in mice induced by a chimeric protein rSAG1/2

Parasitology Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 58-64

  Yang, Chung Dar ^a   Chang, Gan Nan ^b   Chao, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SPLEEN CELL; TH1 CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IMMUNIZATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TH1 CELLS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0842308891     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0992-5     Document Type: Article

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