Feline dirofilariosis: Antibody response to antigenic fractions containing specific 20 to 30 kDa polypeptides from the adult Dirofilaria immitis somatic antigen

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 341-353

  Prieto, G ^a   Ceciliani, F ^b   Venco, L ^c   Morchon R ^a   Simon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Viale Cremona   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antigenic fractions; Cat; Diagnosis; Dirofilaria immitis; ELISA

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIASIS; GEL FILTRATION; HEART; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HEART; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IVERMECTIN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037016905     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(01)00540-4     Document Type: Article

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