A new MIC1-MAG1 recombinant chimeric antigen can be used instead of the Toxoplasma gondii lysate antigen in serodiagnosis of human toxoplasmosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-63

  Holec Ga̧sior, Lucyna ^a   Ferra, Bartłomiej ^a   Drapała, Dorota ^a   Lautenbach, Dariusz ^b   Kur, Józef ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MATRIX ANTIGEN 1; MICRONEME PROTEIN 1; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAL AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84855685657     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.05433-11     Document Type: Article

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