Human antibodies elicited by a pneumococcal vaccine express ldiotypic determinants indicative of V(H)3 gene segment usage

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 707-716

  Abadi, Jacobo ^b   Friedman, Joseph ^b   Mageed, Rizgar A ^b   Jefferis, Roy ^b   Rodriguez Barradas, Maria C ^b   Pirofski, Liise Anne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031658738     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515369     Document Type: Article

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