Immune response to surface protein a of Streptococcus pneumoniae and to high-molecular-weight outer membrane protein A of Moraxella catarrhalis in children with acute otitis media

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1842-1845

  Samukawa, Takao ^a   Yamanaka, Noburu ^a   Hollingshead, Susan ^b   Murphy, Timothy F ^c   Faden, Howard ^d,e  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c VA Western New York Health System   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN A;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFANT; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYRINGOTOMY; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONVALESCENCE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034114974     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315427     Document Type: Article

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