Homotypic and heterotypic antibody responses to a 56-kilodalton protein of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 6194-6197

  Choi, Myung Sik ^a   Seong, Seung Yong ^a   Kang, Jae Seung ^b   Kim, Yun Won ^c   Huh, Myung Suk ^a   Kim, Ik Sang ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 0032735252     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.11.6194-6197.1999     Document Type: Article

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