Toxoplasma gondii: Expression pattern and detection of infection using full-length recombinant P35 antigen

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 83-90

  Lu, Bin ^a   Wu, Shaoting ^b   Shi, Yun ^a   Zhang, Renli ^b   Zou, Lijun ^a   Gao, Shitong ^b   Lin, Min ^b   Zhou, Yikai ^a  

^a Institute of Environmental Medicine   (China)

^b Center of Disease Control   (China)

Author keywords

Acute infection; Expression pattern; P35 surface antigen; P35 IgM; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN P35; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33646471082     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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