Heterogeneity of antibodies reactive with the dominant antigen of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3794-3798

  Nakashima, Keisuke ^a,c   Schenkein, Harvey A ^a   Califano, Joseph V ^a   Tew, John G ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOHYDRATE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; O ANTIGEN; PROTEIN A;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0030930696     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.9.3794-3798.1997     Document Type: Article

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