Bivalency Is Required for Anticapsular Monoclonal Antibodies to Optimally Suppress Activation of the Alternative Complement Pathway by the Cryptococcus neoformans Capsule

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1547-1553

  Kozel, Thomas R ^a   Macgill, Randall S ^a   Wall, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; FUNGUS ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, ALTERNATIVE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0032038839     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1547-1553.1998     Document Type: Article

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