Antigen heterogeneity among Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC isolates: Discrimination of major surface proteins

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-28

  Gonçalves, Rosário ^a   Regalla, José ^a   Nicolet, Jacques ^b   Frey, Joachim ^b   Nicholas, Robin ^c   Bashiruddin, John ^d   De Santis, Paola ^d   Penha Gonçalves, Aires ^a  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Investigacao Veterinaria   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antigens; Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia; Immunoblotting; Mycoplasma mycoides

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; TYLOXAPOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOAT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RABBIT; SHEEP; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IMMUNE SERA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; PLEUROPNEUMONIA, CONTAGIOUS; RABBITS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0032575739     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(98)00214-4     Document Type: Article

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