Rhodococcus equi Secreted Antigens Are Immunogenic and Stimulate a Type 1 Recall Response in the Lungs of Horses Immune to R. equi Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6329-6337

  Kohler, Andrea K ^a   Stone, Diana M ^a   Hines, Melissa T ^a   Byrne, Barbara A ^b,c   Alperin, Debra C ^a   Norton, Linda K ^a   Hines, Stephen A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VAPC; PROTEIN VAPD; PROTEIN VAPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; EFFECTOR CELL; HORSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; LUNG LAVAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PLASMIDS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0242381223     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6329-6337.2003     Document Type: Article

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