Antichlamydial antibodies in the serum and expressed prostatic secretion in prostatitis

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-283

  Ostaszewska Puchalska, Iwona ^a   Zdrodowska Stefanow, Bozena ^b   Badyda, Jerzy ^c   Bułhak Kozioł, Violetta ^a   Puciło, Katarzyna ^a   Darewicz, Barbara ^b  

^a Diagnostic and Research Centre for Sexually Transmitted Diseases   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^c Urological Outpatient Clinic Multimedica   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Expressed prostatic secretion; IgA antichlamydial antibodies; IgG; IgM; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE SECRETION; PROSTATITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; URETHRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATITIS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; URETHRA;

EID: 4944238539     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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