Pyrogenic toxin superantigen site specificity in toxic shock syndrome and food poisoning in animals

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3630-3634

  Schlievert, Patrick M ^a   Jablonski, Lynn M ^b   Roggiani, Manuela ^a   Sadler, Ingrid ^b   Callantine, Scott ^b   Mitchell, David T ^a   Ohlendorf, Douglas H ^a   Bohach, Gregory A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYROGEN; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD POISONING; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIVER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RABBIT; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROTOXINS; EXOTOXINS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PYROGENS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0034074058     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.6.3630-3634.2000     Document Type: Article

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