Identification of potentially diagnostic Leishmania braziliensis antigens in human cutaneous leishmaniasis by immunoblot analysis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 318-321

  Brito, Maria Edileuza F ^a   Mendonça, Mitzi G ^b   Gomes, Yara M ^a   Jardim, Márcio L ^b   Abath, Frederico G C ^a  

^a Núcleo de Tele Saúde NUTES Hospital das Clínicas   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0034049305     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.2.318-321.2000     Document Type: Article

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