The Taenia saginata homologue of the major surface antigen of Echinococcus spp. is immunogenic and 97% identical to its Taenia solium homologue

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1541-1549

  González, Luis Miguel ^a   Ferrer, Elizabeth ^a,b   Spickett, Andrea ^c   Michael, Lynne M ^c,f   Vatta, Adriano F ^c   Gárate, Teresa ^a   Harrison, Leslie J S ^d   Parkhouse, R Michael E ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^f Bayer (Pty) Ltd   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHINOCOCCUS; HOST; IMMUNOGENICITY; INTEGUMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CATTLE; ECHINOCOCCUS; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

BOS; BOVINAE; ECHINOCOCCUS; SUS; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 34948818230     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0673-x     Document Type: Article

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