Demonstration of a heat-stable 120-kilodalton protein of Rickettsia japonica as a spotted fever group-common antigen

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-139

  Uchiyama, Tsuneo ^a   Zhao, Licheng ^a,b   Uchida, Takahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloning; Heat stable 120 kDa polypeptide; Rickettsia japonica; Spotted fever group

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

JAPONICA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA;

EID: 0030049798     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb03328.x     Document Type: Article

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