Detection of humoral response using a recombinant heat shock protein 70, DnaK, of Mycoplasma haemofelis in experimentally and naturally hemoplasma-infected cats

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1926-1932

  Barker, Emily N ^a   Helps, Chris R ^a   Heesom, Kate J ^a   Arthur, Christopher J ^a   Peters, Iain R ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b   Tasker, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNAK ANTIBODY; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; GENOMIC DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTEIN DNAK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PROTEOME; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78649828701     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00320-10     Document Type: Article

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