Humoral immune responses of Brucella-infected cattle, sheep, and goats to eight purified recombinant Brucella proteins in an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 556-564

  Letesson, J J ^a   Tibor, A ^a   Van Eynde, G ^b   Wansard, V ^a   Weynants, V ^a   Denoel, P ^a   Saman, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VACCINE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHEEP; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030866109     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.5.556-564.1997     Document Type: Article

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