Antibody responses to the host-protective Taenia solium oncosphere protein TSOL18 in pigs are directed against conformational epitopes

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 399-405

  Assana, E ^a,b   Gauci, C G ^b   Kyngdon, C T ^c   Zoli, A P ^c   Dorny, P ^a   Geerts, S ^a   Lightowlers, M W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Conformational epitope; Cysticercosis; Pig; Taenia solium; TSOL18; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; PROTEIN TSOL18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

CESTODA; SUIDAE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 77952271459     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2009.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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