Identification of new antigens in visceral leishmaniasis by expression cloning and immunoblotting with sera of Kala-Azar patients from Bihar, India

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 7018-7021

  Theinert, Stephan M ^a   Basu, Rajatava ^b   Forgber, Michael ^a   Roy, Syamal ^b   Sundar, Shyam ^c   Walden, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 25444504492     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.10.7018-7021.2005     Document Type: Article

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