Relevance of circulating antigen detection to follow-up experimental and human cystic hydatid infections

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 541-549

  Ferragut, G ^a   Ljungstrom I ^b   Nieto, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Circulating antigen; E. granulosus; Human diagnosis; Secondary hydatidosis in mice

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA;

EID: 0031775425     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1998.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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