Humoral and cellular immune response to a Microsporum canis recombinant keratinolytic metalloprotease (r-MEP3) in experimentally infected guinea pigs

Medical Mycology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 495-501

  Brouta, Frédéric ^a   Descamps, Frédéric ^a   Vermout, Sandy ^a   Monod, Michel ^b   Losson, Bertrand ^a   Mignon, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immune response; Keratinase; Metalloprotease; Microsporum canis

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; KERATINASE; PROTEINASE; STROMELYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GUINEA PIG; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; KERATINOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; DERMATOMYCOSES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; METALLOPROTEASES; MICROSPORUM; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; FUNGI; MICROSPORUM CANIS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0346024268     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780310001615385     Document Type: Article

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