Babesia microti: Molecular and antigenic characterizations of a novel 94-kDa protein (BmP94)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 287-293

  Ooka, Hideo ^a   Terkawi, Mohamad Alaa ^a   Goo, Youn Kyoung ^a   Luo, Yuzi ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Yamagishi, Junya ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; BmP94; ELISA; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

BMP94 PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT BMP94 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HYDROPHILICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

BABESIA MICROTI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

EID: 78650548524     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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