Passive immunity to infection with Yersinia spp. mediated by anti- recombinant V antigen is dependent on polymorphism of V antigen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 446-451

  Roggenkamp, Andreas ^a   Geiger, Anna M ^a   Leitritz, Lorenz ^a   Kessler, Annette ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031018415     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.2.446-451.1997     Document Type: Article

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