Survival, replication, and antibody susceptibility of Ehrlichia chaffeensis outside of host cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4229-4237

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

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTIVITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM REPLICATION; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HOST CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; TRANSCYTOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; PLASMA;

EID: 0041530323     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.8.4229-4237.2003     Document Type: Article

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