ELISA for the detection of venom antigens in experimental and clinical envenoming by Loxosceles intermedia spiders

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 563-569

  Chávez Olórtegui, Carlos ^a,c   Zanetti, Vera C ^a   Ferreira, Ana P ^c   Minozzo, João C ^b   Mangili, Oldemir C ^a   Gubert, Ida C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Ctro de Producao e Pesq de I   (Brazil)

^c FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Loxosceles intermedia; Spider bite; Venoms

Indexed keywords

VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER BITE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS; ARACHNIDISM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SNAKE VENOMS; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; BOTHROPS JARARACA; CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; LACHESIS; LACHESIS MUTA MUTA; LOXOSCELES INTERMEDIA; LOXOSCELES LAETA; MICRURUS FRONTALIS; PHONEUTRIA NIGRIVENTER; SCORPIONES; SERPENTES; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 0032496177     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00159-1     Document Type: Article

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