Detecting serum antibodies to a purified recombinant proline-rich antigen of Coccidioides immitis in patients with coccidioidomycosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1475-1478

  Orsborn, Kris I ^a   Galgiani, John N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; PROLINE RICH ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0032466510     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515041     Document Type: Article

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