Molecular Cloning and Characterization of the Genes Coding for the Highly Immunogenic Cluster of 90-Kilodalton Envelope Proteins from the Chlamydia psittaci Subtype That Causes Abortion in Sheep

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1317-1324

  Longbottom, David ^a   Russell, Mary ^a,b   Dunbar, Susanna M ^a   Jones, Gareth E ^a   Herring, Alan J ^a,c  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SHEEP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SHEEP;

EID: 0032037664     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1317-1324.1998     Document Type: Article

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