Adaptive surface antigen variation in Mycoplasma bovis to the host immune response

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 267-275

  Le Grand, Dominique ^a   Solsona, Michel ^b   Rosengarten, Renate ^c   Poumarat, François ^b  

^a VETAGRO SUP   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antigenic variant; Immune evasion; Immune modulation; Mycoplasma bovis; Variable surface protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA BOVIS;

EID: 0030296966     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00377-1     Document Type: Article

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