Combined Use of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Flow Cytometry to Detect Antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in Domestic Canines in Texas

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 313-319

  Shadomy, Sean V ^a   Waring, Stephen C ^a   Chappell, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LIVE TRYPOMASTIGOTE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; SERUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 1642294064     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.2.313-319.2004     Document Type: Article

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