Vaccination with microneme protein NcMIC4 increases mortality in mice inoculated with Neospora caninum

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1046-1055

  Srinivasan, Sangeetha ^a   Mueller, Joachim ^a   Suana, Angela ^a   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; NEOSPORA CANINUM MICRONEME PROTEIN 4; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; VACCINATION;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; VACCINATION; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN DISEASES; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINATION; VERO CELLS;

ANURA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 36749046331     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1181R1.1     Document Type: Article

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