Antigen specificity of the humoral immune response to Mycoplasma haemofelis infection

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1238-1243

  Peters, Iain R ^a   Helps, Chris R ^a   Gruffydd Jones, Timothy J ^a   Day, Michael J ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAT DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS;

EID: 77955293016     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00136-10     Document Type: Article

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