Acute-Phase-Specific Heptapeptide Epitope for Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection

The major capsid protein VP2 of human parvovirus B19, when studied in a denatured form exhibiting linear epitopes, is recognized exclusively by immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies of patients with acute or recent B19 infection. By contrast, conformational epitopes of VP2 are recognized both by IgG of...

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Main Authors: Kaikkonen, Leena, Lankinen, Hilkka, Harjunpää, Irene, Hokynar, Kati, Söderlund-Venermo, Maria, Oker-Blom, Christian, Hedman, Lea, Hedman, Klaus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 1999
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Virology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC85853/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10565913
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