Genetic fusions of heat-labile (LT) and heat-stable (ST) toxoids of porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli elicit neutralizing anti-LT and anti-STa antibodies

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 316-325

  Zhang, Weiping ^a   Zhang, Chengxian ^a   Francis, David H ^a   Fang, Ying ^a   Knudsen, David ^a   Nataro, James P ^b   Robertson, Donald C ^c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUCKLING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CYCLIC GMP; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 73449147008     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00497-09     Document Type: Article

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