Taenia solium and Taenia ovis: Stage-specific expression of the vaccine antigen genes, TSOL18, TSOL16, and homologues, in oncospheres

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 272-275

  Gauci, Charles G ^a   Verástegui, Manuela R ^b   Gilman, Robert H ^c   Lightowlers, Marshall W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cestode; complementary DNA; Cysticercosis; Echinococcus granulosus; Expression; Gene; messenger RNA; mRNA; Oncosphere; Parasite; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; reverse transcription PCR; RT PCR; Taenia ovis; Taenia saginanta; Taenia solium; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TAENIA OVIS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TSOL16 GENE; TSOL18 GENE; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYSTICERCOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

TAENIA OVIS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 33746171361     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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