Detection of human Toxoplasma-specific immunoglobulins A, M, and G with a recombinant Toxoplasma gondii Rop2 protein

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 627-631

  Martin, Valentina ^a   Arcavi, Miriam ^b   Santillan, Graciela ^a   Amendoeira, Maria Regina R ^c   De Souza Neves, Elizabeth ^d   Griemberg, Gloria ^b   Guarnera, Eduardo ^a   Garberi, Juan C ^a   Angel, Sergio O ^a  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TOXOPLASMA PROTEIN ROP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BINDING SITE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032440407     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.5.627-631.1998     Document Type: Article

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