Development of an ELISA for the detection of scorpion venoms in sera of humans envenomed by Androctonus australis garzonii (Aag) and Buthus occitanus tunetanus (Bot): Correlation with clinical severity of envenoming in Tunisia

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 887-900

  Krifi, Mohamed Naceur ^a   Kharrat, Habib ^b   Zghal, Khaled ^c   Abdouli, Mongi ^d   Abroug, Fekhri ^e   Bouchoucha, Slaheddine ^f   Dellagi, Koussay ^a   El Ayeb, Mohamed ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Service De Pédiatrie   (Tunisia)

^c HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^d Faculté de Médecine de Sousse   (Tunisia)

^e FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^f SAHLOUL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB')2 FRAGMENT; SCORPION VENOM;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; TUNISIA;

EID: 0031831314     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00136-0     Document Type: Article

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