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SUBMITTER: Di Febo T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483502 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200910 1
Trypanosoma equiperdum is the causative agent of dourine, a parasitic venereal disease of equids. In this work, rabbits were infected with T. equiperdum strain OVI; serological tests (complement fixation test, ELISA and immunoblotting), used for the diagnosis of dourine in horses, were applied to study rabbit humoral immune response and to characterise T. equiperdum antigen pattern recognised by antibodies from infected rabbits. Moreover a protein extract of T. equiperdum strain OVI was produced ...[more]