Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli elicits immune responses to multiple surface proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3027-3035

  Roy, Koushik ^a   Bartels, Scott ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^b   Fleckenstein, James M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENOMICS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MICE;

EID: 77953934042     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00264-10     Document Type: Article

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