Immunological dominance of Trypanosoma cruzi tandem repeat proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3967-3974

  Goto, Yasuyuki ^a   Carter, Darrick ^a,b   Reed, Steven G ^a  

^a INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Protein Advances Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 51949085777     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00604-08     Document Type: Article

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