IgG-subclass antibody responses and the natural history of hepatic cystic echinococcosis in asymptomatic patients

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-328

  Daeki, A O ^a,b   Craig, P S ^a   Shambesh, M K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DISEASE COURSE; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMAN; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS;

EID: 0034120067     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.2000.11813546     Document Type: Article

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