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To identify characteristics of Abs that are critical for host defense during this intracellular infection, a panel of Ehrlichia-specific mAbs was generated and analyzed. Among 100 Abs recovered, 39 recognized an amino-terminal hypervariable region of an outer membrane protein (OMP), demonstrating that the OMPs are both antigenically variable and immunodominant. A subset of 16 representative OMP-specific Abs was further examined to identify characteristics that were essential for in vivo efficacy. The highly effective Abs recognized a linear epitope within the first hypervariable region of OMP-1g. Only IgG were found to be effective, and among the effective IgG, the following hierarchy was observed: IgG2a &amp;gt; IgG3 = IgG2b. The most striking characteristics of the highly effective Abs were their picomolar binding affinities and long binding t1\/2. 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