Immunoblot analysis of the humoral immune response to Leishmania donovani polypeptides in cases of human visceral leishmaniasis: Its usefulness in prognosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1119-1123

  Kumar, Promod ^a   Pai, Kalpana ^a   Tripathi, Kiran ^a   Pandey, H P ^a   Sundar, Shyam ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY GLUCONATE; MILTEFOSINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036733659     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.5.1119-1123.2002     Document Type: Article

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