Identification of antigenic sites on staphylococcal enterotoxin B and toxoid

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Wood, A C ^a,c   Chadwick, J S ^b   Brehm, R S ^b   Todd, I ^a   Arbuthnott, J P ^b,d   Tranter, H S ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antigenic site; epitope mapping; staphylococcal enterotoxin; toxoid

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; TOXOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXOIDS;

EID: 0031013813     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(96)00099-5     Document Type: Article

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