Molecular Cloning and Sequencing of Three Granulocytic Ehrlichia Genes Encoding High-Molecular-Weight Immunoreactive Proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1356-1363

  Storey, James R ^a   Doros Richert, Linda A ^a   Gingrich Baker, Cindy ^a   Munroe, Kenneth ^a   Mather, Thomas N ^b   Coughlin, Richard T ^a   Beltz, Gerald A ^a   Murphy, Cheryl I ^a  

^a Aquila Biopharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CHEMISTRY; DOG; EHRLICHIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; EHRLICHIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0032038633     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1356-1363.1998     Document Type: Article

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