Using human sera to identify a 52-kda exoantigen of Penicillium chrysogenum and implications of polyphasic taxonomy of anamorphic ascomycetes in the study of antigenic proteins

Mycopathologia

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 213-226

  Wilson, Aaron M ^a   Luo, Wen ^a   Miller, J David ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exoantigen; Paper faced gypsum wallboard; Patient response; Penicillium chrysogenum clade 4

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BUILDING MATERIAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASCOMYCOTA; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 70350402308     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-009-9222-8     Document Type: Article

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