Antigen discovery: A postgenomic approach to leprosy diagnosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 175-182

  Aráoz, Romulo ^a   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Cho, Sungae ^b   Kim, Jong Pill ^c   Cho, Sang Nae ^b   Monot, Marc ^a   Demangel, Caroline ^a   Brennan, Patrick J ^d   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Korean Institute of Leprosy Research   (South Korea)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ML0308; PROTEIN ML2498; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ACTIVATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 29644440605     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.1.175-182.2006     Document Type: Article

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