Identification of in vivo released products of Onchocerca with diagnostic potential, and characterization of a dominant member, the OV1CF intermediate filament

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 778-783

  Cho Ngwa, Fidelis ^a   Zhu, Xiang ^b   Metuge, Jonathan A ^a   Daggfeldt, Annika ^c   Grönvik, Kjell Olov ^c   Orlando, Ron ^b   Atwood, James A ^b   Titanji, Vincent P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Circulating antigens; Diagnosis; Mass spectrometry; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN OV1CF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS;

ONCHOCERCA;

EID: 79956296142     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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