The pspC gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae encodes a polymorphic protein, PspC, which elicits cross-reactive antibodies to PspA and provides immunity to pneumococcal bacteremia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6533-6542

  Brooks Walter, Alexis ^a   Briles, David E ^a   Hollingshead, Susan K ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032721182     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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