Lipopolysaccharide from nonvirulent Ara+ Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates is immunologically indistinguishable from lipopolysaccharide from virulent Ara- clinical isolates

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-229

  Anuntagool, Narisara ^a   Intachote, Pakamas ^a   Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn ^a   White, Nicholas J ^a,b   Sirisinha, Stitaya ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; FEMALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND; VIET NAM;

EID: 0031954681     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.2.225-229.1998     Document Type: Article

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