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Antigenic specificity of the mucosal antibody response to Moraxella catarrhalis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2005
Murphy Timothy F, Brauer Aimee L, Aebi Christoph, Sethi Sanjay
Abstract excerpt
Moraxella catarrhalis is an important human mucosal pathogen causing otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infection in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Little is known about the mucosal antibody response to M. catarrhalis in adults with COPD. In this study, 10 pairs of well-characterized sputum supernatant samples from adults with COPD who had acquired and subsequently...
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