Identification and characterization of an immunodominant 28-kilodalton Coxiella burnetii outer membrane protein specific to isolates associated with acute disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1561-1567

  Zhang, Guoquan ^a   To, Ho ^b   Russell, Kasi E ^a   Hendrix, Laura R ^a   Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi ^b   Fukushi, Hideto ^b   Hirai, Katsuya ^b   Samuel, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; EPITOPE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAA GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA LIBRARY; ENDOCARDITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; GUINEA PIG; HEPATITIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; Q FEVER; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 15544363235     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.3.1561-1567.2005     Document Type: Article

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