Tracking the emerging human pathogen Pseudallescheria boydii by using highly specific monoclonal antibodies

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 756-764

  Thornton, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; EPITOPE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HYPHEN WALL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SCEDOSPORIUM DEHOOGII; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CELL WALL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCETOMA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 66849122076     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00061-09     Document Type: Article

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