A major antigenic domain for the human humoral response to Puumala virus nucleocapsid protein is located at the amino-terminus

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 161-172

  Elgh, Fredrik ^a   Lundkvist, Åke ^b,c   Alexeyev, Oleg A ^a,d   Wadell, Göran ^a   Juto, Per ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d SAMARA STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

ELISA; Hantavirus infection; Immunofluorescense assay; Nephropathia epidemica; Puumala virus; Recombinant nucleocapsid protein; Western blot

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; IMMUNOGENICITY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0030014599     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(96)02042-3     Document Type: Article

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