Comparative immunological and microbiological aspects of paratuberculosis as a model mycobacterial infection

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 29-47

  Whittington, Richard J ^a   Begg, Douglas J ^a   de Silva, Kumudika ^a   Plain, Karren M ^a   Purdie, Auriol C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avian; Avium; Immune response; Leprosy; Mycobacterium; Paratuberculosis; Pathogenesis; Review; Tuberculosis; Ulcerans

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; LEUKOSIALIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AVIAN TUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BOVIDS; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; BURULI ULCER; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORE TEMPERATURE; DISEASE COURSE; GANGRENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RATE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEPROSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPISM; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 84864124373     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: 18732534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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