On the significance of host antibody response to the Trypanosoma brucei transferrin receptor during chronic infection

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 2777-2782

  Steverding, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Host antibody response; Transferrin receptor variation; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

IRON; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IRON TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

MURINAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33750615568     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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