Neurocysticercosis and echinococcosis in Asia: Recent advances in the establishment of highly reliable differential serodiagnosis for international collaboration

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2000, Pages 16-20

  Ito, Akira ^a   Nakao, M ^a   Sako, Y ^a   Nakaya, K ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ASIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; TAENIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TAENIA;

EID: 0034575225     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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