Stage determination and follow-up in sleeping sickness

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 61, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 355-360

  Lejon, V ^a   Buscher, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antibody; Cell count; Cerebrospinal fluid; Diagnosis; Human African trypanosomiasis; IgM; Meningo encephalitic stage; Protein; Trypanosome detection

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0042327861     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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