Transplacental transmission of serotype-specific pneumococcal antibodies in a Brazilian population

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-54

  Costa Carvalho, Beatriz T ^a,d   Carneiro Sampaio, Magda M ^b   Solé, Dirceu ^a   Naspitz, Charles ^a   Leiva, Lily E ^c   Sorensen, Ricardo U ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0344629235     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.1.50-54.1999     Document Type: Article

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