Babesia gibsoni: Identification of an immunodominant, interspersed repeat antigen

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-149

  Jia, Honglin ^a   Terkawi, M Alaa ^a   Aboge, Gabriel Oluga ^a   Goo, Youn Kyoung ^a   Zhou, Jinlin ^a   Lee, Eung Goo ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a  

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

Author keywords

Babesia gibsoni; BgIRA; ELISA

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA GIBSONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE LIBRARY; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

BABESIA GIBSONI; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 37349080906     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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