Diagnosis of the disease stage in sleeping sickness: Towards a new approach;Le diagnostic du stade dans la maladie du sommeil: Vers une nouvelle approche

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 338-340

  Lejon, V ^a   Buscher P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Human african trypanosomiasis; IgM; Stage determination; T. b. gambiense

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARASITOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PATIENT SELECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 0036461473     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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