Echinococcus multilocularis: Developmental stage-specific expression of Antigen B 8-kDa-subunits

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Mamuti, Wulamu ^a,b   Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Xiao, Ning ^a,c   Nakaya, Kazuhiro ^a   Nakao, Minoru ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Lightowlers, Marshall W ^d   Craig, Philip S ^e   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigen B 8 kDa subunits; Characterization; Developmental stage specific expression; Echinococcus multilocularis; Expression; Gene cloning; Recombinant Antigen B

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP B ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LARVAL STAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS;

EID: 31944444296     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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