Evaluation of a Western blot method for the detection of Yersinia antibodies: Evidence of serological cross-reactivity between Yersinia outer membrane proteins and Borrelia burgdorferi

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1269-1274

  Rawlins, Mindy L ^a   Gerstner, Cecilia ^a   Hill, Harry R ^a,b   Litwin, Christine M ^a,b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRUCELLA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COLLODION; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 27744595844     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.11.1269-1274.2005     Document Type: Article

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