V antigen-polyhistidine fusion peptide: Binding to LcrH and active immunity against plague

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4313-4318

  Motin, Vladimir L ^a,b   Nedialkov, Yuri A ^a   Brubaker, Robert R ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0029819458     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.10.4313-4318.1996     Document Type: Article

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