Evaluation of the antigenic similarities of adult-worm extracts from three Gnathostoma species, using sera from Mexican and Japanese patients with Gnathostoma infections

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 629-637

  Ishiwata, K ^a,c   Camacho, S P D ^b   Ogata, K ^a   Nakamura Uchiyama, F ^a   Hiromatsu, K ^a   Nawa, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GNATHOSTOMA DOLORESI; GNATHOSTOMA HISPIDUM; GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; GNATHOSTOMIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; LARVA MIGRANS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEXICO; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SERUM; THELAZIA; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; JAPAN; LARVA MIGRANS; MEXICO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS;

GNATHOSTOMA; GNATHOSTOMA BINUCLEATUM; GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; NEMATODA; THELAZIA;

EID: 0041911007     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803225001490     Document Type: Article

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