Cloning and expression of Epstein-Barr viral antigens in Escherichia coli : purification of recombinant EBV antigens for diagnostic application

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Fones-Tan, Angela.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Gan, Yik Yuen
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2009
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology::Virology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20295
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

One of the factors associated with the etiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Ever since IgA antibodies towards the viral capsid antigen (VCA) and early antigen (EA) showed a high correlation with this disease, indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFAs) to detect...