Antibody to streptococcal cysteine proteinase as a seromarker of group A Streptococcal (Streptococcus pyogenes) infections

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 407-412

  Batsford, Stephen ^a   Brundiers, Mechtild ^a   Schweier, Oliver ^a   Horbach, Elmar ^a   Mönting, Jürgen Schulte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE B; ENZYME PRECURSOR; HYALURONIDASE; STREPTOKINASE; STREPTOLYSIN O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; STREPTOPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035990567     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110080674     Document Type: Article

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