Chronic pneumonia in calves after experimental infection with Mycoplasma bovis strain 1067: Characterization of lung pathology, persistence of variable surface protein antigens and local immune response

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hermeyer, Kathrin ^a   Buchenau, Inka ^a   Thomasmeyer, Anne ^a   Baum, Berit ^a   Spergser, Joachim ^b   Rosengarten, Renate ^b   Hewicker Trautwein, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cattle, mycoplasma bovis; CD4 + T cells; CD8 + cells; Immunoglobulins; Mhc class II; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BOS; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VSP PROTEIN, BACTERIAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PLASMA CELL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MALE; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; PLASMA CELLS; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84856442296     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-54-9     Document Type: Article

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