Histoplasma capsulatum strain variation in both H antigen production and β-glucosidase activity and overexpression of HAG1 from a telomeric linear plasmid

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3312-3316

  Fisher, Kimber L ^a   Deepe Jr , George S ^b   Woods, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTISERUM; BETA GLUCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM;

EID: 0033045807     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3312-3316.1999     Document Type: Article

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