Expression analysis of heat shock protein 20 and rhoptry-associated protein 1a in sexual stages and kinetes of Babesia bigemina

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 136-140

  Vichido, Rodrigo ^a   Falcon, Alfonso ^a   Ramos, Juan A ^a   Alvarez, Antonio ^a   Figueroa, Julio V ^a   Norimine, Junzo ^b   Brown, Wendy C ^b   Castro, Luis A ^a   Mosqueda, Juan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Heat shock protein 20; Kinetes; Rhoptry associated protein 1; Sexual stages

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 20; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; RHOPTRY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1A; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; MEROZOITE; MEXICO; MIDGUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BABESIA BIGEMINA; BOVINAE; IXODIDA;

EID: 57849102265     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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