Antibodies to 60-kilodalton heat shock protein and outer membrane protein 2 of Chlamydia pneumoniae in patients with coronary heart disease

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 66-74

  Ciervo, Alessandra ^a   Visca, Paolo ^a   Petrucca, Andrea ^a   Biasucci, Luigi Maria ^a   Maseri, Attilio ^a   Cassone, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORONARY DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036149843     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.1.66-74.2002     Document Type: Article

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