The outer membrane proteins UspA1 and UspA2 of Moraxella catarrhalis are highly conserved in nasopharyngeal isolates from young children

Vaccine

Volumn 20, Issue 13-14, 2002, Pages 1754-1760

  Meier, Patricia Stutzmann ^a   Troller, Rolf ^a   Grivea, Ioanna N ^b   Syrogiannopoulos, George A ^b   Aebi, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Moraxella catarrhalis; Outer membrane proteins; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GENE PRODUCT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 17C7; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 24B5; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN USPA1; PROTEIN USPA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL ADHESION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEP 2 CELL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPITOPES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; OTITIS MEDIA;

EID: 0037086631     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(02)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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