Taenia solium metacestode glycoproteins as diagnostic antigens for solitary cysticercus granuloma in Indian patients

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 478-484

  Prabhakaran, V ^a   Rajshekhar, V ^a   Murrell, K D ^b   Oommen, A ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

India; Neurocysticercosis; Solitary cysticercus granuloma; Taenia solium glycoproteins

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; LECTIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOMA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

LENS CULINARIS; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 3242722523     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.12.006     Document Type: Article

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