Needles in the EST haystack: large-scale identification and analysis of excretory-secretory (ES) proteins in parasitic nematodes using expressed sequence tags (ESTs).

Parasitic nematodes of humans, other animals and plants continue to impose a significant public health and economic burden worldwide, due to the diseases they cause. Promising antiparasitic drug and vaccine candidates have been discovered from excreted or secreted (ES) proteins released from the par...

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Main Authors: Shivashankar H Nagaraj, Robin B Gasser, Shoba Ranganathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2553489?pdf=render