The severity of chorioamnionitis in pregnant sheep is associated with in vivo variation of the surface-exposed multiple-banded antigen/gene of Ureaplasma parvum

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-426

  Knox, Christine L ^a   Dando, Samantha J ^a   Nitsos, Ilias ^b   Kallapur, Suhas G ^b,c   Jobe, Alan H ^b,c   Payton, Diane ^d   Moss, Timothy J M ^e   Newnham, John P ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Immunology; Multiple banded antigen gene; Pregnancy; Ureaplasma species

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MULTIPLE BANDED ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INOCULATION; MALE; MBA GENE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHEEP; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA PARVUM SEROVAR 3;

EID: 77956117657     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.083121     Document Type: Article

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