Homologs of the Brugia malayi diagnostic antigen BmR1 are present in other filarial parasites but induce different humoral immune responses

Filaria Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Noordin, Rahmah ^a   Abdul Aziz, Ros Azeana ^a   Ravindran, Balachandran ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOA LOA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 13644251915     PISSN: 14752883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-3-10     Document Type: Article

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