Discovery of monoclonal antibodies cross-reactive to novel subserotypes of K. pneumoniae

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Guachalla, Luis M ^a   Stojkovic, Katarina ^b   Hartl, Katharina ^a   Kaszowska, Marta ^b   Kumar, Yadhu ^c   Wahl, Benjamin ^c   Paprotka, Tobias ^c   Nagy, Eszter ^a   Lukasiewicz, Jolanta ^b   Nagy, Gábor ^a   Szijártó, Valéria ^a  

^a Arsanis Biosciences GmbH   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^c GATC Biotech AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; O ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS REACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS REACTIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; O ANTIGENS; SEROGROUP;

EID: 85026402324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06682-2     Document Type: Article

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