Development of an immunoenzymatic assay for the detection of human antibodies against Trypanosoma cruzi calreticulin, an immunodominant antigen

Acta Tropica

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-300

  Marcelain, Katherine ^a   Colombo, Alicia ^a   Molina, María Carmen ^a   Ferreira, Lorena ^a   Lorca, Myriam ^a   Aguillón, Juan Carlos ^a   Ferreira, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Calreticulin; ELISA; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CALRETICULIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALRETICULIN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034738015     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(00)00062-0     Document Type: Article

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