Inhibitory Effect of Antiserum to Surface Antigen P50 of Babesia gibsoni on Growth of Parasites in Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Mice Given Canine Red Blood Cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1795-1798

  Fukumoto, Shinya ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Takabatake, Noriyuki ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a   Nagasawa, Hideyuki ^a   Mikami, Takeshi ^b   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a  

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

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; PROTEIN P50; VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA GIBSONI; BABESIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 1342323710     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.3.1795-1798.2004     Document Type: Article

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