Identification of residual blood proteins in ticks by mass spectrometry proteomics

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1273-1275

  Wickramasekara, Samanthi ^a   Bunikis, Jonas ^b   Wysocki, Vicki ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA GLOBIN; BETA TUBULIN; HISTONE; HISTONE H2; HISTONE H3; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERRIN;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD COMPONENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MICE; MOLTING; NYMPH; RABBITS; SHEEP; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TICKS;

EID: 48749132987     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1408.080227     Document Type: Article

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