Characterization of a monoclonal antibody specific for Brucella smooth lipopolysaccharide and development of a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to improve the serological diagnosis of brucellosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-314

  Weynants, Vincent ^a   Gilson, Dominique ^a   Cloeckaert, Axel ^b   Denoel, Philippe A ^a   Tibor, Anne ^a   Thiange, Pierre ^c   Limet, Joseph N ^a   Letesson, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Ctr Depistage Maladies A   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0029997068     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.3.3.309-314.1996     Document Type: Article

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