Identification of a novel antigen of pathogenic Leptospira spp. that reacted with convalescent mice sera

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 585-589

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOGENICITY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONVALESCENCE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0038441801     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05148-0     Document Type: Article

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