Immunization with an Autotransporter Protein of Orientia tsutsugamushi Provides Protective Immunity against Scrub Typhus

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ha, Na Young ^a   Sharma, Prashant ^a   Kim, Gwanghun ^a   Kim, Yuri ^a   Min, Chan Ki ^a   Choi, Myung Sik ^a   Kim, Ik Sang ^a   Cho, Nam Hyuk ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; SCAA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION ASSAY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 84928788470     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003585     Document Type: Article

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