Antibodies against Trypanosoma cruzi alkaline antigens are elicited in sera from acute but not chronic human chagasic patients

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-89

  Zúñiga, Elina ^a   Montes, Carolina ^a   Barbieri, Gustavo ^b   Gruppi, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Independencia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alkaline antigens; Chagas' disease; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Humoral response; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFANT; ISOELECTRIC POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 17744406414     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clim.1999.4744     Document Type: Article

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