Detection of Cryptosporidium - Specific Coproantigen in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients by Using a Commercially Available Immunoenzymatic Assay

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1097-1099

  Silva, Claudio Vieira ^a   Ferreira, Marcelo Simão ^b   Gonçalves Pires, Maria Do Rosário De Fátima ^a   Costa Cruz, Julia Maria ^a  

^a Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); Coproantigen; Cryptosporidium sp.

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; STAINING; VIRUS DETECTION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 1342290355     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000800022     Document Type: Article

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