Functional opsonic activity of human serum antibodies to inner core lipopolysaccharide (galE) of serogroup B meningococci measured by flow cytometry

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 3203-3213

  Plested, J S ^a   Ferry, B L ^a   Coull, P A ^a   Makepeace, K ^a   Lehmann, A K ^a   MacKinnon, F G ^a   Griffiths, H G ^a   Herbert, M A ^a   Richards, J C ^a   Richard Moxon, E ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; COMPLEMENT; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OPSONIN; POLYSTYRENE;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0035058823     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.5.3203-3213.2001     Document Type: Article

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