The immune response to pneumococcal proteins during experimental human carriage

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-365

  McCool, Tera L ^a   Cate, Thomas R ^b   Moy, Gregory ^a   Weiser, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carriage; Colonization; Pneumococcal surface protein A; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ADULT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A, SECRETORY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037017388     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20011576     Document Type: Article

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