Identification of a Coccidioides immitis antigen 2 domain that expresses B-cell-reactive epitopes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3376-3380

  Zhu, Yufan ^a   Tryon, Vic ^b   Magee, D Mitchell ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^a  

^a Texas Center for Infectious Disease   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030759233     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.8.3376-3380.1997     Document Type: Article

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