Serum-specific antibodies in rabbits naturally infected with Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Medical Mycology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-329

  Zrimšek, Petra ^a   Kos, J ^b   Pinter, L ^c   Drobnic Kosorok M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Antibodies; ELISA; Immunoblotting; Rabbits; Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KERATIN; NITROGEN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS CULTURE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; RABBITS; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

ANIMALIA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; FUNGI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 0041323200     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780310001600840     Document Type: Article

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