Identification, characterization, and application of a recombinant antigen for the serological investigation of feline hemotropic mycoplasma infections

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1917-1925

  Wolf Jäckel, Godelind A ^a   Jäckel, Christian ^b   Museux, Kristina ^a,d   Hoelzle, Katharina ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^c   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 78649830256     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00282-10     Document Type: Article

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