Leishmania major-like antigen for specific and sensitive serodiagnosis of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1361-1366

  Barbosa de Deus, Rosângela ^a   Dos Mares Guia, Marcos Luíz ^a   Zacarias Nunes, Adriane ^a   Morais Costa, Kátia ^a   Gonçalves Junqueira, Roberto ^a   Mayrink, Wilson ^a   Genaro, Odair ^a   Pereira Tavares, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL VENEREAL TUMOR; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOG; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEPROSY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; RELIABILITY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SERUM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0036843343     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.6.1361-1366.2002     Document Type: Article

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