Antigenic specificity of a monovalent versus polyvalent MOMP based Chlamydia pecorum vaccine in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1217-1223

  Kollipara, Avinash ^a   Wan, Charles ^a   Rawlinson, Galit ^b   Brumm, Jacqui ^b   Nilsson, Karen ^b   Polkinghorne, Adam ^a   Beagley, Kenneth ^a   Timms, Peter ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pecorum; Koala; MOMP; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHLAMYDIASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IN VITRO STUDY; KOALA; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; EPITOPES; LYMPHOCYTES; PHASCOLARCTIDAE;

EID: 84873099838     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.12.057     Document Type: Article

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