Demonstration of expression of six proteins of the mammalian cell entry (mce1) operon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by anti-peptide antibodies, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 519-527

  Harboe, Morten ^a   Christensen, A ^a   Haile, Y ^b   Ulvund, G ^a   Ahmad, S ^c   Mustafa, A S ^c   Wiker, H G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; EPITOPE;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032695883     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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