Immunodiagnostic approaches for detecting Taenia solium [2] (multiple letters)

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 259-260

  Dorny, Pierre ^a   Brandt, Jef ^a   Geerts, Stanny ^a   Ito, Akira ^b   Craig, Philip S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ASCARIS; CROSS REACTION; CYST; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ENTAMOEBA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; FILARIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAENIA HYDATIGENA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TRICHURIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ASCARIS; ENTAMOEBA; FILARIA; TAENIA; TAENIA HYDATIGENA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TRICHURIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 2442466891     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.04.001     Document Type: Letter

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