Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Elfaki ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3656064 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Elfaki Mona E E ME Khalil Eltahir A G EA De Groot Anne S AS Musa Ahmed M AM Gutierrez Andres A Younis Brima M BM Salih Kawthar A M KA El-Hassan Ahmed M AM
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics 20120824 12
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a serious parasitic disease for which control measures are limited and drug resistance is increasing. First and second generation vaccine candidates have not been successful. The goal of the present study was to select possibly immunogenic L. donovani donovani GP63 peptides using immunoinformatics tools and to test their immunogenicity in vitro. The amino acid sequence of L. donovani donovani GP63 [GenBank accession: ACT31401] was screened using the EpiMatrix algor ...[more]