Although it's painful: The importance of stringent antibody validation

Victoria A. Meliopoulos; Stacey Schultz-Cherry

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006701

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Although it's painful: The importance of stringent antibody validation

Victoria A. Meliopoulos ,

* E-mail: victoria.meliopoulos@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1442-9177

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Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-727X

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Although it's painful: The importance of stringent antibody validation

Victoria A. Meliopoulos,
Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Published: January 4, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006701

About the Authors

Victoria A. Meliopoulos

* E-mail: victoria.meliopoulos@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1442-9177

Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-727X

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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