Isoelectric focusing and ELISA evaluation of a Blastomyces dermatitidis human isolate

Mycopathologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-76

  Shurley, Jack F ^a   Scalarone, Gene M ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastomycosis; Cross reactivity; ELISA; Isoelectric focusing; Protein

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHEMISTRY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPLASMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HISTOPLASMA; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS;

EID: 34548034702     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9033-8     Document Type: Article

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