Immune response to capsular polysaccharide and surface proteins of Streptococcus pneumoniae in patients with invasive pneumococcal disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 330-333

  Zysk, Gregor ^a   Bethe, Gesina ^a   Nau, Roland ^b   Koch, Daniela ^a   Gräfin Von Bassewitz, Valeska C D H ^a   Heinz, Hans Peter ^a   Reinert, Ralf R ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PULLULANASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037439402     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367701     Document Type: Article

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