Cloning of a novel Babesia equi gene encoding a 158-kilodalton protein useful for serological diagnosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 334-338

  Hirata, Haruyuki ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a   Suzuki, Naoyoshi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABESIA EQUI; BE158 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; MEROZOITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNE SERA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 22044448322     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.2.334-338.2005     Document Type: Article

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