Emergence of antibody to capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae during outbreaks of pneumonia: Association with nasopharyngeal colonization

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 441-446

  Musher, Daniel M ^a   Groover, Jean E ^b   Reichler, Mary R ^b   Riedo, Francis X ^b   Schwartz, Benjamin ^b   Watson, David A ^b   Baughn, Robert E ^b   Breiman, Robert F ^b  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILITARY MEDICINE; NASOPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031026795     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.3.441     Document Type: Article

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