Persistence of passively transferred antibodies in porcine Taenia solium cysticercosiss

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-118

  Gonzalez, Armando E ^a   Verastegui, Manuela ^b   Noh, John C ^c   Gavidia, Cesar ^a   Falcon, Nestor ^a   Bernal, Teresa ^a   Garcia, Hector H ^b   Tsang, Victor C W ^c   Gilman, Robert H ^b,d   Wilkins, Patricia P ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Endemic diseases; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PERU; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; MALE; PERU; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0032810925     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(99)00106-5     Document Type: Article

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