Effect of antibody on the Rickettsia-host cell interaction

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3524-3530

  Feng, Hui Min ^a   Whitworth, Ted ^a   Popov, Vsevolod ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FC RECEPTOR; MANNITOL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN B; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTERNALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR KILLING; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SCID MOUSE; STARVATION; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CYTOSOL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PHAGOSOMES; RECEPTORS, FC; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; VERO CELLS;

EID: 2542603913     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.6.3524-3530.2004     Document Type: Article

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