Induction of protective immunity against scrub typhus with a 56-kilodalton recombinant antigen fused with a 47-kilodalton antigen of Orientia tsutsugamushi Karp

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 458-464

  Yu, Yuefei ^a   Wen, Bohai ^b   Wen, Bogui ^a   Niu, Dongsheng ^b   Chen, Meiling ^b   Qiu, Ling ^b  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GENOMIC DNA; ISOPROPYL BETA THIOGALACTOSIDE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; THIOGLYCOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HYBRID PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 18944389592     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.72.458     Document Type: Article

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