Sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis contain antibodies to recombinant human T-Lymphotrophic virus type I/II envelope glycoprotein p21

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 182-188

  Starkebaum, Gordon ^a,b   Shasteen, Nancy M ^a,b   Fleming Jones, Robert M ^a   Loughran Jr , Thomas P ^c   Mannik, Mart ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELTY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 0029969601     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1996.0065     Document Type: Article

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