Two-Dimensional Electrophoretic Analysis of Humoral Responses to Culture Filtrate of Mycobacterium bovis BCG in Patients with Leprosy and Tuberculosis

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 208-213

  Naito, Mariko ^a   Izumi, Shinzo ^b   Yamada, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Natl Leprosarium Ohshima Seisyouen   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031743350     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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