Is phenolic glycolipid-i really a specific antigen for leprosy?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 937-938

  Sinha, Roma ^a   Sengupta, Ananya ^a   Ali, Nahid ^a   Gupta, Pratap Narayan ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID I; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEPROSY; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CROSS REACTIONS; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77749282847     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650541     Document Type: Letter

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