Specific recognition of the major capsid protein of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus by sera of patients infected by Francisella tularensis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-123

  Pelletier, Nicolas ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cross reaction; Mimivirus; Protein of capsid; Tularemia; Western blot

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MIMIVIRIDAE; RABBITS; TULAREMIA;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MIMIVIRUS; MIRIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 67650757512     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01675.x     Document Type: Article

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