Molecular ontogeny of the human antibody repertoire to the Haemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide: Expression of canonical variable regions and their variants in vaccinated infants

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-127

  Lucas, Alexander H ^a   McLean, Gary R ^b   Reason, Donald C ^a   Gruber, Howard S ^c   Boynton, Ragna C ^c   Cuthbertson, James G ^c   Franks, AnneMary ^c   Davenport, Elaine E ^c   Sweeters, Nancy ^a   Simon, Julie ^a   O'Connor, Adam P ^a   Felton, Mistique C ^a   Moulton, Karen D ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Berkeley Patients Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Haemophilus influenzae type b; Human; Polysaccharide; Repertoire

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY;

EID: 0042163216     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6616(03)00094-9     Document Type: Article

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