Immunogenicity of peptides coupled with multiple T-cell epitopes of a surface protein antigen of Streptococcus mutans

Immunology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-283

  Senpuku, H ^a   Iizima, T ^b   Yamaguchi, Y ^b   Nagata, S ^b   Ueno, Y ^b   Saito, M ^a   Hanada, N ^a   Nisizawa, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG EFFICACY; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

EID: 0030006869     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.1996.tb00015.x     Document Type: Article

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