The major outer membrane protein of a single Chlamydia trachomatis serovar can possess more than one serovar-specific epitope

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 542-547

  Batteiger, Byron E ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030052973     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.542-547.1996     Document Type: Article

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