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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Cho PY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7793300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20201228 12
Clonorchiasis caused by Clonorchis sinensis is endemic in East Asia; approximately 15 million people have been infected thus far. To diagnose the infection, serodiagnostic tests with excellent functionality should be performed. First, 607 expressed sequence tags encoding polypeptides with a secretory signal were expressed into recombinant proteins using an in vitro translation system. By protein array-based screening using C. sinensis-infected sera, 18 antigen candidate proteins were selected an ...[more]