A cluster of four surface antigen genes specifically expressed in bradyzoites, SAG2CDXY, plays an important role in Toxoplasma gondii persistence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2402-2410

  Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a,b   Arrizabalaga, Gustavo ^a,c   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; SAG2C ANTIGEN; SAG2D ANTIGEN; SAG2X ANTIGEN; SAG2Y ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SURFACE ANTIGEN P22, TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BRADYZOITE; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 46249083369     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01494-07     Document Type: Article

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