Diagnostic and prognostic potential of a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for leishmaniasis in India

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 550-554

  Chatterjee, Mitali ^b   Jaffe, Charles L ^c   Sundar, Shyam ^d   Basu, Debasis ^a,e   Sen, Sandeep ^f   Mandal, Chitra ^b  

^a National Institute of Homeopathy   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^f Sen Medical Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY GLUCONATE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0032773136     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.4.550-554.1999     Document Type: Article

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