Strain-specific recognition of live Leishmania donovani promastigotes by homologous antiserum raised against a crude membrane fraction of infected macrophages

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Goel, Apollina ^a   Vohra, Harpreet ^b   Varshney, Grish C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CELL MEMBRANE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE SERA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032922648     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050501     Document Type: Article

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