Detection of antibodies and delayed dermal hypersensitivity with different lots of Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast lysate antigen: Stability and specificity evaluations

Mycoses

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 303-308

  Wakamoto, A ^a   Fryer, B M ^a   Fisher, M A ^a   Johnson, T J ^a   Lundgren, D K ^a   Knickerbocker, J D ^a   Rounds, S L ^a   Scalarone, G M ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody detection; Blastomyces dermatitidis; Blastomycosis; DTH; ELISA; Lysate antigens

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031469091     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1997.tb00236.x     Document Type: Article

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