A time-course study of circulating antigen and parasite-specific antibody in cotton rats infected with Leishmania donovani

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-162

  Azazy, A A ^a   Chance, M L ^b   Devaney, E ^c  

^a SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; MACROGOL; PARASITE ANTIBODY; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; RAT; URINE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; SIGMODON;

EID: 0031002196     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813125     Document Type: Article

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