Screening of highly expressed mycobacterial genes identifies Rv3615c as a useful differential diagnostic antigen for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3932-3939

  Sidders, Ben ^a   Pirson, Chris ^b   Hogarth, Philip J ^b   Hewinson, R Glyn ^b   Stoker, Neil G ^a   Vordermeier, H Martin ^b   Ewer, Katie ^b,c  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BCG VACCINE; CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; RV3615C ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 51949099908     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00150-08     Document Type: Article

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