Expression of C-terminal truncated and full-length Babesia bigemina rhoptry-associated protein 1 and their potential use in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 28-35

  Boonchit, Suthisak ^a   Alhassan, Andy ^a   Chan, Bun ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Ooshiro, Mamoru ^b   Goff, Will L ^c   Waghela, Suryakant D ^d   Wagner, Gale ^d   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

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

^b Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Animal Health   (Japan)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Recombinant antigen; Rhoptry associated protein 1

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOVINAE;

EID: 33644931609     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.12.025     Document Type: Article

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