Isolation of a human monoclonal antibody with strong neutralizing activity against diphtheria toxin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3682-3683

  Kakita, Mai ^a   Takahashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Komiya, Takako ^b   Iba, Yoshitaka ^c   Tsuji, Takao ^a   Kurosawa, Yoshikazu ^a,c   Takahashi, Motohide ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY DTD4; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY ISOLATION; ANTIBODY LIBRARY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RABBITS;

EID: 33646948222     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01731-05     Document Type: Article

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