Babesia caballi and Babesia equi: Implications of host sialic acids in erythrocyte infection

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 406-411

  Okamura, Masashi ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Wickramathilaka, Nilanthi P A L K ^a   Takabatake, Noriyuki ^a   Ikehara, Yuzuru ^b   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

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

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 3 linked sialic acid; Babesia caballi; Babesia equi; Erythrocyte infection; MAL II, Maackia amurensis lectin II; Neu5Ac, N acetylneuraminic acid; Neu5Gc, N glycolylneuraminic acid; Neuraminidase; PBS, phosphate buffered saline; RBC, erythrocytes

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA EQUI; CELL INVASION; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH; INFECTION; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ERYTHROCYTES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; NEURAMINIDASE; PARASITEMIA; SIALIC ACIDS;

BABESIA; BABESIA CABALLI; BABESIA EQUI; EQUIDAE; MAACKIA AMURENSIS;

EID: 20444394678     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.03.025     Document Type: Article

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