Salivary natural antibodies as a basic immune barrier against Group A streptococci

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 418, Issue , 1997, Pages 881-885

  Quan, Canh ^a   Berneman, Armand ^a   Pires, René ^a   Avrameas, Stratis ^a   Bouvet, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

EID: 0030770387     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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