A new recombinant protein-based ELISA for the diagnosis of malignant theileriosis of sheep and goats

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-149

  Bakheit, M A ^a,b   Seitzer, U ^a   Ahmed, J S ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GOAT; HEALTH SURVEY; MALIGNANT THEILERIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STANDARDIZATION; SUDAN; THEILERIA; THEILERIA LESTOQUARDIA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; EHRLICHIA; OVIS ARIES; THEILERIA; THEILERIA LESTOQUARDI;

EID: 29144527432     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0034-6     Document Type: Article

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