Identification of a novel potential antigen for early-phase serodiagnosis of leptospirosis

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 523-532

  Neves, Fernanda O ^a,b   Abreu, Patricia A E ^a   Vasconcellos, Silvio A ^b   De Morais, Zenáide M ^b   Romero, Eliete C ^c   Nascimento, Ana L T O ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cloning and expression; Diagnostic; Leptospira interrogans; Leptospirosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LP29; PROTEIN LP49; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE; SERUM; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS;

EID: 35348882895     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0273-2     Document Type: Article

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