Oral infection with a Shiga toxin-negative Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain elicits humoral and cellular responses but does not protect sheep from colonisation with the homologous strain

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 317-322

  Vande Walle, Kris ^a   De Zutter, Lieven ^a   Cox, Eric ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Cellular response; E. coli O157:H7; EspA; EspB; Intimin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; INTIMIN; PROTEIN ESPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY-PRODUCING CELLS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTESTINES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79951577279     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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