Trypanosoma cruzi: Detection of a surface antigen cross-reactive to human C-reactive protein

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-153

  Melo Coutinho, Cláudia M L ^a,b   Cavalcanti, Guarani H ^a   Bonaldo, Myrna C ^a   Mortensen, Richard F ^c   Araújo Jorge, Tania C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS REACTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN SECRETION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031706644     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4323     Document Type: Article

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