Comparative analysis of two diagnostic methods of human loaiosis: IgG4 serology and nested-PCR assay;Analyse comparative de deux méthodes diagnostiques de la loase humaine : Sérologie IgG4 et PCR nichée

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-170

  Toure F S ^a   Mavoungou, E ^a   Deloron, P ^a   Egwang, T G ^b  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b Med Biotech Laboratories Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Comparison; Diagnosis; Gabon; Haut Ogoou ; IgG4 serology; Loaiosis; Occult filariosis; PCR; Subsaharian Africa

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY; HELMINTH DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIASIS; GABON; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LOA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DNA, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GABON; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOA; LOIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033439490     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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