A Novel Candidate Vaccine for Cytauxzoonosis Inferred from Comparative Apicomplexan Genomics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tarigo, Jaime L ^a   Scholl, Elizabeth H ^a   Bird, David McK ^a   Brown, Corrie C ^b   Cohn, Leah A ^c   Dean, Gregg A ^a,d   Levy, Michael G ^a   Doolan, Denise L ^e   Trieu, Angela ^e   Nordone, Shila K ^a   Felgner, Philip L ^f   Vigil, Adam ^f   Birkenheuer, Adam J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RECOMBINANT CF76 VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CAT DISEASE; CF76 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTAUXZOON FELIS; CYTAUXZOONOSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME SIZE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THEILERIA PARVA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; IMMUNE SERA; PIROPLASMIDA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNTENY; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 84882652524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071233     Document Type: Article

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