Total and specific anti-Trypanosoma cruzi immunoglobulin E in pericardial fluid samples from patients with chronic Chagas disease

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 578-581

  Mineo, José Roberto ^a   Rocha, Ademir ^a   Costa Cruz, Julia Maria ^a   Da Silva, Arnaldo Moreira ^a   De Oliveira Silva, Deise Aparecida ^a   De Fátima Gonçalves Pires, Maria Do Rosário ^a   Lopes, Edison Reis ^b   Chapadeiro, Edmundo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade Med do Triangulo Mineiro   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American trypanosomiasis; Chagas disease; Immunoglobulin E; Pericardial fluid; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGACOLON; MEGAESOPHAGUS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0029972173     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90331-4     Document Type: Article

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