Targeted surface expression of an exogenous antigen in stably transfected Babesia bovis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Laughery, Jacob M ^a   Knowles, Donald P ^a,b   Schneider, David A ^b   Bastos, Reginaldo G ^a   McElwain, Terry F ^a   Suarez, Carlos E ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; LIVE VACCINE; LUCIFERASE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RHIPICEPHALUS (BOOPHILUS) MICROPLUS; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BABESIA BOVIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

EID: 84901364054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097890     Document Type: Article

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