Expression and purification of diagnostically sensitive mycobacterial (Mycobacterium bovis) antigens and profiling of their humoral immune response in a rabbit model

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-47

  Kwok, Hang Fai ^a,b   Scott, Christopher J ^b   Snoddy, Philip ^a   Buick, Richard J ^a   Johnston, James A ^a   Olwill, Shane A ^a  

^a FUSION ANTIBODIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody assay; Bovine tuberculosis; Humoral immune response; Interferon gamma; Mycobacterial antigens; Skin test

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOASSAY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RABBITS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TUBERCULIN;

AVES; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77952888066     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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