Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibody isotype profiles in patients with different clinical manifestations of Chagas' disease

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-359

  Morgan, Juliette ^a,d   Dias, Joao Carlos Pinto ^b   Gontijo, Eliane Dias ^c   Bahia Oliveira, Lilian ^b   Correa Oliveira, Rodrigo ^b   Colley, Daniel G ^d   Powell, Malcolm R ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; EPIMASTIGOTE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0029911265     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.55.355     Document Type: Article

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