Identification and cloning of two immunogenic Clostridium perfringens proteins, elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) and pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFO) of C. perfringens

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Kyungwoo ^a,b   Lillehoj, Hyun S ^a   Li, Guangxing ^a   Park, Myeong Seon ^a   Jang, Seung I ^a   Jeong, Wooseog ^b   Jeoung, Hye Young ^b   An, Dong Jun ^b   Lillehoj, Erik P ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Gangrenous dermatitis; Necrotic enteritis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; NECROTIC ENTERITIS B LIKE TOXIN; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHICKEN MEAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS INFECTION; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; ELONGATION FACTOR TU GENE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GANGRENOUS DERMATITIS; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PYRUVATE FERREDOXIN OXIDOREDUCTASE GENE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EIMERIA MAXIMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79958202688     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: 15322661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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