Antigen-specific B-cell unresponsiveness induced by chronic Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection of cattle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1593-1598

  Waters, W R ^a   Stabel, J R ^b   Sacco, R E ^b   Harp, J A ^b   Pesch, B A ^b   Wannemuehler, M J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CONCANAVALIN A; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033003820     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.67.4.1593-1598.1999     Document Type: Article

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