Effect of Yersinia pestis YopM on experimental plague

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 924-930

  Nemeth, Judith ^a   Straley, Susan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNIZATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RABBIT; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0031019824     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.3.924-930.1997     Document Type: Article

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