Detection of immunoglobulin G antibodies to Neospora caninum in humans: High seropositivity rates in patients who are infected by human immunodeficiency virus or have neurological disorders

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-89

  Lobato, Janaína ^a   Silva, Deise A O ^a   Mineo, Tiago W P ^b   Amaral, Jodi D H F ^a   Silva Segundo, Gesmar R ^a   Costa Cruz, Julia M ^a   Ferreira, Marcelo S ^a   Borges, Aércio S ^a   Mineo, José R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEIZURE; SERUM; SUPERINFECTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COCCIDIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOSPORA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PATIENTS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 33645130474     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.13.1.84-89.2006     Document Type: Article

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