An improved serodiagnostic test for Chagas' disease employing a mixture of Trypanosoma cruzi recombinant antigens

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-97

  Umezawa, Eufrosina Setsu ^a   Bastos, Sueli F ^b   Coura, Jose R ^b   Levin, Mariano J ^b   Gonzalez, Antonio ^b   Rangel Aldao, Rafael ^b   Zingales, Bianca ^b   Luquetti, Alejandro O ^b   Da Silveira, Jose Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN B13; PROTEIN H49; PROTEIN IF8; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SCREENING TEST; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037229496     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00279.x     Document Type: Article

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