Genetic resistance to Brucella abortus in the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2115-2120

  Borriello, Giorgia ^a   Capparelli, Rosanna ^a   Bianco, Michele ^b   Fenizia, Domenico ^a   Alfano, Flora ^a   Capuano, Federico ^a   Ercolini, Danilo ^a   Parisi, Antonio ^a   Roperto, Sante ^a   Iannelli, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Regione Campania   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALO; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NRAMP1 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALOES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 33645499522     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.4.2115-2120.2006     Document Type: Article

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