High-Level Expression of Immunogenic Recombinant Plasmodium vivax Merozoite Surface Protein (Pvmsp-142 kDa) in pGEX 6P1 Vector

• Main Authors: Hadi Mirahmadi (Author), Shirzad Fallahi (Author), Vahid Fallah Omrani (Author), Bahram Kazemi (Author), Ali Haghighi (Author), Seyyed Javad Seyyed Tabaei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Detection of Plasmodium vivax specific antibodies with serological tests could be a valuable tool for epidemiological researches. Whereas P. vivax cannot be simply obtained in vitro, serological tests using total or semipurified antigens are infrequently used. Given this restriction, the...