Figure 1

Developmental expression of novel S. japonicum antigens recognised by lymph node-derived ASC-probes. Expression levels of AY815838 (A), calponin-like protein (B) and Sj-L6L-1 (C) in developmental stages of S. japonicum were determined by quantitative real-time PCR. Stages examined were cercariae (C), 2 day- (2d) and 3 day-old (3d) schistosomula (S), adult pairs (A), adult males (M), adult females (F) and eggs (E). Normalized fold expression of the genes relative to the expression in cercariae is presented, and bars represent standard error of the mean.