Value of detecting immunoglobulin E antibodies for the serological diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 247-251

  Gross, Uwe ^a   Keksel, Olga ^a   Dardé, Marie Laure ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0031011641     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.3.247-251.1997     Document Type: Article

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