Identification of a peptide from mammal albumins responsible for enhanced pigment production by group B streptococci

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 425-426

  Rosa Fraile, Manuel ^a   Sampedro, Antonio ^a   Varela, Javier ^b   Garcia Peña, Marisa ^a   Gimenez Gallego, Guillermo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; PEPTIDE; PEPTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0032934616     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.3.425-426.1999     Document Type: Article

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