Human antibody response to longus type IV pilus and study of its prevalence among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Bangladesh by using monoclonal antibodies

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2071-2074

  Qadri, Firdausi ^a,d   Girón, Jorge A ^b   Helander, Anna ^c   Begum, Yasmin A ^a   Asaduzzaman, Muhammad ^a   Xicohténcatl Cortes, Juan ^b   Negrete, Erasma ^b   Albert, M John ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

EID: 0034100092     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315507     Document Type: Article

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