Sub-clinical infection as an effective protocol for obtaining anti-Leishmania chagasi amastigote antibodies of different animal species

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 135-141

  Fróes, Adriana M ^a   Dos Santos, Cláudia V D ^a   Penha Filho, Manoel L ^b   Teixeira, Márcia C A ^b,c,d   Correa Silva, Tânia Maria ^b,d   Oliveira, Geraldo G ^b   Dos Santos, Washington L C ^b,d   Pontes De Carvalho, Lain C ^b,d   Alcântara Neves, Neuza M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciencias   (Brazil)

^d Fundacao Desenvolvimento Ciencias   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American visceral leishmaniasis; Antibodies monoclonal; AVL; IFA; Immune response; Immunohistology; incomplete Freund's adjuvant; Leishmania chagasi amastigotes; mAbs; monoclonal antibodies

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SUBCLINICAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CRICETINAE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RABBITS; RODENT DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 2342588636     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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