O-Antigen seroepidemiology of Klebsiella clinical isolates and implications for immunoprophylaxis of Klebsiella infections

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 550-555

  Trautmann, Matthias ^a   Ruhnke, Markus ^b   Rukavina, Tomislav ^c   Held, Thomas K ^b,d   Cross, Alan S ^d   Marre, Reinhard ^a   Whitfield, Chris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KLEBSIELLA VACCINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; KLEBSIELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0030817049     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.5.550-555.1997     Document Type: Article

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