Correlation between serological and sequencing analyses of the PorB outer membrane protein in the Neisseria meningitidis serotyping system

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 348-354

  Sacchi, Claudio T ^a,b   Lemos, Ana P S ^a   Whitney, Anne M ^b   Solari, Claude A ^c   Brandt, Mary E ^b   Melles, Carmo E A ^a   Frasch, Carl E ^d   Mayer, Leonard W ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

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

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031832696     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.3.348-354.1998     Document Type: Article

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