Serological responses and biomarker evaluation in mice and pigs exposed to tsetse fly bites.

• Auteurs principaux: Guy Caljon (Auteur), Reta Duguma (Auteur), Reginald De Deken (Auteur), Stijn Schauvliege (Auteur), Frank Gasthuys (Auteur), Luc Duchateau (Auteur), Jan Van Den Abbeele (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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BACKGROUND: Tsetse flies are obligate blood-feeding insects that transmit African trypanosomes responsible for human sleeping sickness and nagana in livestock. The tsetse salivary proteome contains a highly immunogenic family of the endonuclease-like Tsal proteins. In this study, a recombinant versi...