Use of the recombinant Onchocerca volvulus protein Ov20/OvS1 for the immunodiagnostic differentiation between onchocerciasis and mansonelliasis and for the characterization of hyperreactive onchocerciasis (sowda)

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 891-897

  Mpagi, J L ^a   Buttner D W ^a   Tischendorf, F W ^a   Erttmann, K D ^a   Brattig, N W ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mansonelliasis; Onchocerciasis; Ov20 OvS1 protein; Sowda

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY; MONITORING; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MANSONELLIASIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MANSONELLA PERSTANS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0034496565     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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