Experimental immunization of hamsters with an EDTA extract of Leptospira interrogans, serovar icterohaemorrhagiae;Inmunizacion experimental de hamsters con un extracto de Leptospira interrogans, serovar icterohaemorrhagiae obtenido con EDTA

Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiologia

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-43

  De Queiroz Leite, Lilian Terezinha ^a   Resende, Maurício ^a   Ramos Vieira, Maria Das Neves ^a   Cota Koury, Matilde ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HAMSTER; INFECTION CONTROL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; NONHUMAN; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

AGGLUTININS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; EDETIC ACID; EVALUATION STUDIES; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MESOCRICETUS; SOLVENTS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE;

EID: 0029787459     PISSN: 01874640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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