Patients with papular urticaria have IgG antibodies to bedbug (Cimex lectularius) antigens

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 550-556

  Abdel Naser, Mohamed Badawy ^a   Lotfy, Ranya Adel ^a   Al Sherbiny, Maged Mustafa ^b   Sayed Ali, Nehad Mahmoud ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CIMEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; FLEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULEX IRRITANS; SALIVARY GLAND;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; BEDBUGS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULEX; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SALIVARY PROTEINS; URTICARIA;

CIMEX; CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CULEX PIPIENS; PULEX IRRITANS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 33645454639     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0076-9     Document Type: Article

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