Preferential recognition of human myocardial antigens by T lymphocytes from rheumatic heart disease patients

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2197-2205

  El Demellawy, Maha ^a,b   El Ridi, Rashika ^b   Guirguis, Nabil I ^b   Alim, Mohamed Abdel ^b   Kotby, Alyaa ^c   Kotb, Malak ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OPSONIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030949248     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2197-2205.1997     Document Type: Article

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