Recent advances in serodiagnosis for cysticercosis

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages 98-104

  Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; HELMINTH DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAENIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAENIA;

EID: 0035553357     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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