Proline-rich vaccine candidate antigen of Coccidioides immitis: Conservation among isolates and differential expression with spherule maturation

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 518-521

  Peng, Tao ^b   Orsborn, Kris I ^b   Orbach, Marc J ^b   Galgiani, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS ANTIGEN; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS VACCINE; COCCIDIOSTATIC AGENT; FUNGUS VACCINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLINE; PROLINE RICH ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROLINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033051943     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314604     Document Type: Article

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