Characterization of a novel Taenia solium oncosphere antigen

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 154-161

  Mayta, Holger ^a,b   Hancock, Kathy ^c   Levine, Min Z ^c   Gilman, Robert H ^a,b   Farfán, Marilú J ^b   Verastegui, Manuela ^b   Lane, William S ^d   Garcia, Hector H ^b,e   Gonzalez, Armando E ^f   Tsang, Victor C W ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NEUROLÓGICAS   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cysticercosis; Protein sequencing; Taenia solium; Taeniasis

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOSPHERE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTICERCOSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GLYCOSYLATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

SUIDAE; SUS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 35349001629     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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