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SUBMITTER: Verma A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1273856 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Verma Ashutosh A Artiushin Sergey S Matsunaga James J Haake David A DA Timoney John F JF
Infection and immunity 20051101 11
Recurrent uveitis as a sequela to Leptospira infection is the most common infectious cause of blindness and impaired vision of horses worldwide. Leptospiral proteins expressed during prolonged survival in the eyes of horses with lesions of chronic uveitis were identified by screening a phage library of Leptospira interrogans DNA fragments with eye fluids from uveitic horses. Inserts of reactive phages encoded several known leptospiral proteins and two novel putative lipoproteins, LruA and LruB. ...[more]