The serological surveillance of several groups of patients using antigens of Encephalitozoon hellem and E. cuniculi antibodies to microsporidia in patients

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 108-112

  Kučerová Pospišilová, Zuzana ^a   Ditrich, Oleg ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antimicrosporidial IgG antibodies; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Encephalitozoon hellem; Microsporidia

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CERCOPITHECUS; DEMENTIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREGNANCY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; VERO CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DEMENTIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICROSPORIDIA; PREGNANCY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VERO CELLS;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 2642711681     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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