Toxoplasma gondii: Detection of MIC10 antigen in sera of experimentally infected mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 362-371

  Dautu, George ^a   Ueno, Akio ^a   Miranda, Aracelis ^b   Mwanyumba, Sophie ^c   Munyaka, Biscah ^d   Carmen, Gabriella ^e   Kariya, Tatsuya ^a   Omata, Yoshitaka ^a   Saito, Atsushi ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Igarashi, Makoto ^a  

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

^b Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Research   (Panama)

^c National Public Health Laboratory Services   (Kenya)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e Servicio Nacional de Salud y Calidad Animal   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

Circulating antigen; MIC10; Microneme protein 10; Sandwich ELISA; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MICRONEME PROTEIN 10; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUPERNATANT; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 38649134490     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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