Identification, diagnostic potential, and natural expression of immunodominant seroreactive peptides encoded by five Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific genomic regions

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 477-482

  Al Khodari, Noora Y ^a   Al Attiyah, Rajaa ^a   Mustafa, Abu S ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79952540252     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00405-10     Document Type: Article

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