Antigenic variation in Bacteroides forsythus detected by a checkerboard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 725-731

  Sims, Tom J ^a   Mancl, Lloyd A ^a   Braham, Pamela H ^a   Page, Roy C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MALE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS;

EID: 0032440844     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.5.725-731.1998     Document Type: Article

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