Passive immunisation of hamsters against Clostridium difficile infection using antibodies to surface layer proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-205

  O'Brien, Julie B ^a   McCabe, Matthew S ^a   Athié Morales, Verónica ^a   McDonald, George S A ^b   Ní Eidhin, Déirdre B ^a   Kelleher, Dermot P ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Diarrhoea; Hamster model; Surface layer proteins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN ANTISERUM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SURFACE LAYER PROTEIN ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MESOCRICETUS; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE;

EID: 19544374453     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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