Preliminary investigation of lethally toxic sera of sudden infant death syndrome victims and neutralisation by commercially available immunoglobulins and adult sera

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 193-198

  Sayers, Nicola M ^a   Drucker, David B ^a   Hutchinson, Ian V ^a   Barson, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Serum; Sudden infant death syndrome; Toxin

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL TOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHICK EMBRYO; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 0032980001     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(99)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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