Recombinant Coccidioides immitis complement-fixing antigen: Detection of an epitope shared by C. immitis, Histoplasma capsulatum, and Blastomyces dermatitidis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-22

  Yang, Michael Chunmu ^a   Magee, D Mitchell ^a   Kaufman, Leo ^b   Zhu, Yufan ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^a  

^a Texas Center for Infectious Disease   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCIDIOIDIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031055077     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.1.19-22.1997     Document Type: Article

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