T-cell responses to Treponema pallidum subsp, pallidum antigens during the course of experimental syphilis infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4757-4763

  Arroll, Thomas W ^a   Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TPN17; PROTEIN TPN37; PROTEIN TPN47; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; RABBIT; SPLEEN CELL; SYPHILIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0032768794     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4757-4763.1999     Document Type: Article

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