Sequential analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum msp2 transcription in murine and equine models of human granulocytic anaplasmosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 418-424

  Scorpio, Diana G ^a,c   Leutenegger, Christian ^b,d   Berger, Jeannine ^b   Barat, Nicole ^a   Madigan, John E ^b   Dumler, J Stephen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENE PRODUCT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSP2; RANTES; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MSP2 PROTEIN, ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; MSP2 GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAINING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; DISEASE MODEL; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETICS; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; HL-60 CELLS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERIAL PASSAGE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 42049116367     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00417-07     Document Type: Article

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