Detection of Giardia duodenalis antigen in coprolites using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 640-643

  Carvalho Gonçalves, Marcelo Luiz ^a   Araújo, Adauto ^a   Duarte, Rosemere ^a   Pereira da Silva, Joaquim ^a   Reinhard, Karl ^b   Bouchet, Françoise ^c   Ferreira, Luis Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ancient faeces; Coprolites; Diagnosis; ELISA; Giardiasis; Paleoparasitology

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DESICCATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PROTOZOON; SAMPLE; SEDIMENT;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 0344687434     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90337-8     Document Type: Article

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