Babesial vector tick defensin against Babesia sp. parasites

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3633-3640

  Tsuji, Naotoshi ^a   Battsetseg, Badgar ^b   Boldbaatar, Damdinsuren ^b   Miyoshi, Takeharu ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^b   Oliver Jr , James H ^c   Fujisaki, Kozo ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

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

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; LONGICIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SCORPION VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA EQUI; BABESIA GIBSONI; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; JAPAN; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK; VERTEBRATE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS;

EID: 34447280632     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00256-07     Document Type: Article

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