Group B streptococci escape host immunity by deletion of tandem neat elements of the alpha C protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 4131-4136

  Madoff, Lawrence C ^a,b   Michel, James L ^a   Gong, Elizabeth W ^a   Kling, David E ^a   Kasper, Dennis L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Bacterial antigens; Repetitive sequences; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

ALPHA C PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPLEEN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0029865960     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.9.4131     Document Type: Article

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