Recognition of a B-cell epitope of the VapA protein of Rhodococcus equi in newborn and experimentally infected foals

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 291-295

  Phumoonna, T ^a,b   Barton, M D ^b   Heuzenroeder, M W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EVALUATION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 32944467752     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: 14390450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2005.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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