Immunological evaluation and cellular location analysis of the TprI antigen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3817-3822

  Giacani, Lorenzo ^a   Sambri, Vittorio ^a,c   Marangoni, Antonella ^a   Cavrini, Francesca ^a   Storni, Elisa ^a   Donati, Manuela ^a   Corona, Silvia ^b   Lanzarini, Paolo ^b   Cevenini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; TPRI ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; SERUM; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 19744372111     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.6.3817-3822.2005     Document Type: Article

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