Cysticercus antibodies and antigens in serum from blood donors from Pondicherry, India

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 227-230

  Parija, Subhash Chandra ^a   Balamurugan, N ^b   Sahu, Priyadarshi Soumyaranjan ^a   Subbaiah, S P ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b JAMAL MOHAMED COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Co Agglutination test; Cysticercosis; ELISA; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; SEROPREVALENCE;

EID: 24144460524     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652005000400010     Document Type: Article

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