Rapid dot-ELISA for the detection of specific antigens in the cyst fluid from human cases of cystic echinococcosis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 691-694

  Wang, Y ^a   Bradshaw, H ^a   Rogan, M T ^a   Craig, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BLOOD GROUP B ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PEROXIDASE;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CAMEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYST FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE; HUMAN; LIVER CYST; NONHUMAN; PARASITIC LIVER DISEASE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CYST FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS; CAMELIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036816170     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125001717     Document Type: Article

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