Mechanisms of humoral immunity during Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 435-443

  Winslow, Gary M ^a   Yager, Eric ^b   Li, Julia Shu Yi ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Ehrlichia; Humoral immunity; Intracellular bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; FC RECEPTOR; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCID MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0038051567     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07408.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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