Vaccination of mice with recombinant NcROP2 antigen reduces mortality and cerebral infection in mice infected with Neospora caninum tachyzoites

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1455-1463

  Debache, Karim ^a   Guionaud, Christophe ^a   Alaeddine, Ferial ^a   Mevissen, Meike ^a   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral infection; Host cell invasion; Neospora caninum; Neosporosis; ROP2; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A ANTIBODY; NCROP2 ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SAPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; RECOMBINATION; RODENT; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EMULSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; TACHYZOITE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 51249107767     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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