Update on immunological tests for lymphatic filariasis

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 255-257

  Melrose, Wayne D ^a   Durrheim, David D ^a   Burgess, Graham W ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AEDES; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUGIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERIODICITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRUGIA MALAYI; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRUGIA; NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 2442621375     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.04.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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