Molecular cloning of an immunogenic protein of Baylisascaris procyonis and expression in Escherichia coli for use in developing improved serodiagnostic assays

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1933-1939

  Dangoudoubiyam, Sriveny ^a   Vemulapalli, Ramesh ^a   Hancock, Kathy ^b   Kazacos, Kevin R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; REPEAT ANTIGEN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BABOON; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; INTRON; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; RNA SPLICING; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASCARIDIDA INFECTIONS; ASCARIDOIDEA; ASCARIS SUUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITOLOGY; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 78649900213     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00404-10     Document Type: Article

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