Use of GRA6-derived synthetic polymorphic peptides in an immunoenzymatic assay to serotype Toxoplasma gondii in human serum samples collected from three continents

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1380-1386

  Sousa, Susana ^a,e   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^e   Vilanova, Manuel ^b   Costa, José ^c,d   Dardé, Marie Laure ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Laboratory for Veterinary Research   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^e DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GRA6 DERIVED SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ARCHETYPAL STRAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 51649118871     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00186-08     Document Type: Article

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