T-cell epitope mapping of the three most abundant extracellular proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in outbred guinea pigs

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2665-2670

  Lee, Bai Yu ^a   Horwitz, Marcus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BCG VACCINE; EPITOPE; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032924972     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2665-2670.1999     Document Type: Article

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