The monoclonal antibody against the major diagnostic antigen of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis mediates immune protection in infected BALB/c mice challenged intratracheally with the fungus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3321-3328

  Buissa Filho, R ^a   Puccia, R ^b   Marques, A F ^a   Pinto, F A ^a   Munoz J E ^a   Nosanchuk, J D ^c   Travassos, L R ^b   Taborda, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 43; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; 43 KDA PROTEIN, PARACOCCIDIOIDES; EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG BIOPSY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITOPES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46449130354     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00349-08     Document Type: Article

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