Immune selection for antigenic drift of major outer membrane protein P2 of Haemophilus influenzae during persistence in subcutaneous tissue cages in rabbits

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 980-986

  Vogel, Liesbeth ^a   Duim, Birgitta ^a   Geluk, Forien ^a   Eijk, Paul ^a   Jansen, Henk ^b   Dankert, Jacob ^a   Van Alphen, Loek ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030045232     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.3.980-986.1996     Document Type: Article

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