Antibody Responses to a Major Pneumocystis carinii Antigen in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients with and without P. carinii Pneumonia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1151-1155

  Lundgren, Bettina ^a,b   Lundgren, Jens D ^a,b   Nielsen, Thyge ^a,b   Mathiesen, Lars ^a,b   Nielsen, Jens O ^a,b   Kovacs, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026521367     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/165.6.1151     Document Type: Article

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