A 77-kilodalton protein of Cryptococcus neoformans, a member of the heat shock protein 70 family, is a major antigen detected in the sera of mice with pulmonary cryptococcosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1653-1658

  Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Udono, Heiichiro ^b   Ikuno, Nobuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Mitsutake, Kotaro ^a   Miyazaki, Takashige ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Koga, Hironobu ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a   Nakayama, Eiichi ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030901433     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.5.1653-1658.1997     Document Type: Article

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