Identification of immunodominant antigens from Helicobacter pylori and evaluation of their reactivities with sera from patients with different gastroduodenal pathologies

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 915-920

  Kimmel, Brigitte ^a   Bosserhoff, Armin ^b   Frank, Rainer ^b   Gross, Roy ^a   Goebel, Werner ^a   Beier, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DUODENUM DISEASE; GASTRITIS; GASTRODUODENAL ULCER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH DISEASE;

EID: 0033978078     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.915-920.2000     Document Type: Article

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