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SUBMITTER: Ching XT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4058840 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ching Xiao Teng XT Lau Yee Ling YL Fong Mun Yik MY Nissapatorn Veeranoot V Andiappan Hemah H
BioMed research international 20140529
Toxoplasma gondii infects all warm-blooded animals, including humans, causing serious public health problems and great economic loss for the food industry. Commonly used serological tests require costly and hazardous preparation of whole Toxoplasma lysate antigens from tachyzoites. Here, we have evaluated an alternative method for antigen production, which involved a prokaryotic expression system. Specifically, we expressed T. gondii dense granular protein-5 (GRA5) in Escherichia coli and isolat ...[more]