Immunohistochemical diagnosis of typhus rickettsioses using an anti- lipopolysaccharide monoclonal antibody

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1038-1042

  Walker, David H ^a   Feng, Hui Min ^a   Ladner, Stephen ^a   Billings, Adrian N ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^b   Wear, Douglas J ^c   Hightower, Barbara ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Lipopolysaccharide; Monoclonal antibody; Murine typhus; Rickettsia; Typhus fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EGYPT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TYPHUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRAIN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 0030734842     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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