Development and duration of antibody response against Ehrlichia equi in horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1910-1914

  Van Andel, Amy E ^a,c   Magnarelli, Louis A ^b   Heimer, Robert ^a   Wilson, Mark L ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CONVALESCENCE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0032525388     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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