A protective epitope of Moraxella catarrhalis is encoded by two different genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4367-4377

  Aebi, Christoph ^a,b   Maciver, Isobel ^a   Latimer, Jo L ^a   Cope, Leslie D ^a   Stevens, Marla K ^a   Thomas, Sharon E ^a   McCracken Jr , George H ^b   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMINO ACID; ANTIGEN; DNA; EPITOPE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030778134     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4367-4377.1997     Document Type: Article

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