Experimental Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection in beagles

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1021-1026

  Zhang, Xiao Feng ^a   Zhang, Jian Zhi ^a   Long, S Wesley ^a   Ruble, Randall P ^a   Yu, Xue Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; DOGS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1542541073     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05234-0     Document Type: Article

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