Immunoblot characterization of IgG, IgM and IgE antibodies elicited during the course of fatal and non-fatal infections of Plasmodium berghei in DBA/2 and Balb/c mice

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-47

  Desowitz, R S ^a,b   Van Overmeir, C ^a   Wery M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 0031044459     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813110     Document Type: Article

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