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Immunofluorescent microscopical visualization of trails left by gliding Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites
M J Arrowood1, C R Sterling, M C Healey
1Department of Animal Science, Utah State University, Logan 84322-5600.
The Journal of Parasitology
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoites that exhibited gliding motility in vitro were examined by immunofluorescence with anticryptosporidial monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) for surface antigen deposition on poly-L-lysine-coated glass microscope slides. The Mabs that revealed trails are specific for an immunodominant 23-kDa antigen previously localized to the sporozoite surface.