Cloning of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene encoding a purified protein derivative protein that elicits strong tuberculosis-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 224-233

  Coler, Rhea N ^a   Skeiky, Yasir A W ^b   Ovendale, Pamela J ^b   Vedvick, Thomas S ^b   Gervassi, Luis ^b   Guderian, Jeff ^b   Jen, Shyian ^b   Reed, Steven G ^a,b   Campos Neto, Antonio ^a  

^a INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TUBERCULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, CD27; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033943887     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315677     Document Type: Article

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