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SUBMITTER: Homer MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC149722 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Homer Mary J MJ Lodes Michael J MJ Reynolds Lisa D LD Zhang Yanni Y Douglass John F JF McNeill Patricia D PD Houghton Raymond L RL Persing David H DH
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030201 2
The need for improved diagnostic reagents to identify human long-term carriers of the zoonotic parasite Babesia microti is evidenced by numerous reported cases of transfusion-acquired infections. This report describes the identification and initial characterization of 27 clones representing seven genes or gene families that were isolated through serological expression cloning by using a technique that we specifically designed to screen for shed antigens. In this screen, sera from B. microti-infe ...[more]