| Literature DB >> 17065258 |
R R Kulkarni1, V R Parreira, S Sharif, J F Prescott.
Abstract
Little is known about immunity to necrotic enteritis (NE) in chickens. A recent study of broiler chickens showed that protection against NE was associated with infection-immunization with virulent but not with avirulent Clostridium perfringens. In the current study, six secreted antigenic proteins unique to virulent C. perfringens that reacted to serum antibodies from immune birds were identified by mass spectrophotometry; three of these proteins are part of the VirR-VirS regulon.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17065258 PMCID: PMC1694445 DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00292-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Vaccine Immunol ISSN: 1556-679X