N-propionylated group B meningococcal polysaccharide mimics a unique bactericidal capsular epitope in group B Neisseria meningitidis

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1929-1938

  Pon, Robert A ^a   Lussier, Michele ^a   Yang, Qing Ling ^a   Jennings, Harold J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; EPITOPE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0030913174     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.11.1929     Document Type: Article

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