Antibodies to a novel leptospiral protein, LruC, in the eye fluids and sera of horses with Leptospira-associated uveitis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 452-456

  Verma, Ashutosh ^a,d   Matsunaga, James ^b,c   Artiushin, Sergey ^a   Pinne, Marija ^b,c   Houwers, Dirk J ^e   Haake, David A ^b,c   Stevenson, Brian ^d   Timoney, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN LRUC; PROTEIN LRUC ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HORSE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LRUC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BODY FLUIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EYE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UVEITIS;

EID: 84857938819     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.05524-11     Document Type: Article

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