Characterization of the murine antibody response to peptides representing the variable domains of the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydia pneumoniae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3354-3359

  Peterson, Ellena M ^a   Cheng, Xun ^a   Qu, Zhenhai ^a   De la Maza, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030054512     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3354-3359.1996     Document Type: Article

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