Recombinant 56-kilodalton major outer membrane protein antigen of Orientia tsutsugamushi Shanxi and its antigenicity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4772-4779

  Chen, Wei Jun ^a   Niu, Dong Sheng ^a   Zhang, Xue Ying ^a   Chen, Mei Ling ^a   Cui, Hong ^a   Wei, Wen Jin ^a   Wen, Bo Hai ^a   Chen, Xiang Rui ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SXH 56; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SCRUB TYPHUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0042244431     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.8.4772-4779.2003     Document Type: Article

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