Schistosoma mansoni: The circulating cathodic antigen forms an abundant product of 41/42 kDa in the urine of infected patients

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 286-289

  Abdeen, Hesham H ^a   Attallah, Abdel Fattah M ^a,b   El Mohamady, Hanan I ^a   Harrison, Robert A ^a,c   Mansour, Moustafa M ^a  

^a Naval Medical Research Unit Number 3   (Egypt)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Schistosoma mansoni; Trematode; Urine

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; URINALYSIS;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032211282     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4343     Document Type: Article

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