Distinctive features of surface-anchored proteins of streptococcus agalactiae strains from Zimbabwe revealed by PCR and dot blotting

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1420-1424

  Mavenyengwa, Rooyen T ^a   Maeland, Johan A ^b,d   Moyo, Sylvester R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^d TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CROSS REACTION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VACCINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZIMBABWE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PREGNANT WOMEN; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 51649109425     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00112-08     Document Type: Article

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