Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1995-08-25
1999-07-27
Housel, James C.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
4242341, 4242651, 435 795, 435 4052, 435243, 435366, 435367, 4353721, G01N 33567
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ABSTRACT:
Methods for the in vitro cultivation, propagation, and production of antigens of Ehrlichia phagocytophila genogroup granulocytic Ehrlichiae, including Ehrlichia equi, in Ixodes scapularis tick cell culture and in human HL60 promyelocytic leukemia cell culture.
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Dumler J. Stephen
Goodman Jesse
Kurtti Timothy J.
Madigan John
Munderloh Ulrike G.
Housel James C.
Shaver Jennifer
The Regents of the University of California
The Regents of the University of Minnesota
University of Maryland at Baltimore
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