Pitfalls in the application of enzyme-linked immunoassays for the detection of circulating trypanosomal antigens in serum samples

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 550-556

  Rebeski, Dierk E ^a   Winger, Eva M ^a   Van Rooij, Eugene M A ^b   Schöchl, Ralph ^c   Schuller, Walter ^c   Dwinger, Ronald H ^a   Crowther, John R ^a   Wright, Peter ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Fed Inst Contr Viral Dis L   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; PARASITEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

EID: 0033006557     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050594     Document Type: Article

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