Identification of immunologically relevant proteins of Chlamydophila abortus using sera from experimentally infected pregnant ewes

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1274-1281

  Marques, P X ^a   Souda, Puneet ^c   O'Donovan, J ^b   Gutierrez, J ^a   Gutierrez, E J ^a   Worrall, S ^a   McElroy, M ^b   Proctor, A ^a   Brady, C ^b   Sammin, D ^b   Basset, H F ^a   Whitelegge, Julian P ^c   Markey, B E ^a   Nally, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFECTIVITY POTENTIATOR LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HOST CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTION; DISEASE MODEL; FETUS DEATH; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VETERINARY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ABORTED FETUS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 77955295914     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00163-10     Document Type: Article

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