Species-, serogroup-, and serovar-specific epitopes are juxtaposed in variable sequence region 4 of the major outer membrane proteins of some Chlamydia trachomatis serovars

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2839-2841

  Batteiger, Byron E ^a,b   Lin, Pei Mao ^a   Jones, Robert B ^a   Van Der Pol, Barbara J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SUPERANTIGEN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030002664     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.7.2839-2841.1996     Document Type: Article

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