Analysis of p51, groESL, and the major antigen p51 in various species of Neorickettsia, an obligatory intracellular bacterium that infects trematodes and mammals

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3823-3826

  Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a   Zhang, Chunbin ^a   Kanter, Manuel ^a   Cheng, Zhihui ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^a,c   Fukuda, Takeo ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Miyazaki Pref Inst Pub Hlth E   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN P51; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROESL GENE; MAMMAL; NEORICKETTSIA; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; P51 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLANTCHASMUS FALCATUS; TREMATODE;

ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NEORICKETTSIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TREMATODA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEORICKETTSIA; NEORICKETTSIA HELMINTHOECA; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; RICKETTSIALES; STELLANTCHASMUS FALCATUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 4043184042     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3823-3826.2004     Document Type: Article

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