Serological screening of occurrence of antibodies to Encephalitozoon cuniculi in humans and animals in Eastern Slovakia

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-120

  Halánová, Monika ^a   Čisláková, Lýdia ^a   Valenčáková, Alexandra ^b   Bálent, Pavol ^b   Adam, Jozef ^c   Trávniček, Milan ^b  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^c II Clin of Gynaecol/Obstetrics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Human and animal infection; IFA; Microsporidia

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CAT; DOG; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; RABBIT; SCREENING TEST; SHEEP; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATS; DOGS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RABBITS; SHEEP; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FELIS CATUS; MICROSPORIDIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038463826     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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