Variant-specific and diminishing immune responses towards the highly variable MSP2(P44) outer membrane protein of Anaplasma phagocytophilum during persistent infection in lambs

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 133, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 117-124

  Granquist, Erik G ^a   Stuen, Snorre ^a   Crosby, Liliana ^b   Lundgren, Anna M ^b   Alleman, A Rick ^b   Barbet, Anthony F ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Antigenic variation; Immune evasion; Sheep diseases; Tick borne fever; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN MSP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMATACEAE INFECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC PARAMETERS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LAMB; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHEEP DISEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; IXODIDA; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 72449167889     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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