Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of onchocerciasis, infects over 20 million people and can cause severe dermatitis and ocular conditions including blindness. Current mass drug administration treatments do not kill female O. volvulus worms, and common diagnostic tests cannot reliably assess t...
Proteomic profiling of the excreted / secreted products from adult female and male hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum, including a media-only control sample.
The aims of this study were to study ESPs to improve understanding of parasite-host interactions and to support the discovery of novel diagnostic or therapeutic targets. We used tandem mass-spectrometry to characterize the secretome of adult P. kellicotti flukes and to compare ESPs released during i...