Human antibody response towards the pneumococcal surface proteins PspA and PspC during invasive pneumococcal infection

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 341-345

  Linder, Adam ^a   Hollingshead, Susan ^b   Janulczyk, Robert ^a   Christensson, Bertil ^a   Åkesson, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody response; PspA; PspC; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; HIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN A1; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN A2; PNEUMOCOCCAL SURFACE PROTEIN C; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33845226709     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.07.028     Document Type: Article

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