Identification of the gene encoding a 38-kilodalton immunogenic and protective antigen of Streptococcus suis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 484-490

  Okwumabua, Ogi ^a,c   Chinnapapakkagari, Sharmila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; DNA FRAGMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE; REAGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SWINE DISEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 22844441219     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.4.484-490.2005     Document Type: Article

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