Bancroftian filariasis in Nepal: A survey for circulating antigenemia of Wuchereria bancrofti and urinary IgG4 antibody in two rural areas of Nepal

Acta Tropica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-15

  Watanabe, Kanji ^a   Itoh, Makoto ^b   Matsuyama, Hiroshi ^a   Hamano, Shinjiro ^c   Kobayashi, Shigeru ^d   Shirakawa, Taku ^e   Suzuki, Akira ^e   Sharma, Sashi ^f   Acharya, Gopal P ^f   Itoh, Kazue ^g   Kawasaki, Terukazu ^h   Kimura, Eisaku ^b   Aoki, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^g NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nepal; Og4C3 ELISA; Urine IgG4; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY; FILARIASIS; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RESIDENT; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

NEPAL;

WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0042967518     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00157-8     Document Type: Article

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