Vaccines against blood-feeding nematodes of humans and livestock

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue SUPPL.2, 2006, Pages

  Bethony, J M ^a   Loukas, A ^b   Hotez, P J ^a,c   Knox, D P ^d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma; ASPs; Haemonchus; Hookworms; Proteases; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANCYLOSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 1; ANCYLOSTOMA SECRETED PROTEIN 2; ANTIGEN; ASPARTIC HAEMOGLOBINASE; ASTACIN LIKE METALLOPROTEASE 1; CYSTEINE HEMOGLOBINASE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ANCYLOSTOMA; BLOOD FEEDING; BLOOD MEAL; DIGESTION; FEEDING; GENOME; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HOOKWORM; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFORMATION; LARVA; LIVESTOCK; MEAL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPECIES; TECHNIQUE;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 33846839303     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006001818     Document Type: Review

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