Toxoplasma gondii: Comparison of a rhoptry-ELISA with IFAT and MAT for antibody detection in sera of experimentally infected pigs

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-105

  Garcia, João Luis ^a   Navarro, Italmar Teodorico ^b   Vidotto, Odilon ^b   Gennari, Solange Maria ^c   Machado, Rosângela Zacarias ^d   da Luz Pereira, Ademir Benedito ^b   Sinhorini, Idercio Luiz ^c  

^a Universidade Estadual   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; ELISA; enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; IFAT; indirect fluorescence antibody test; MAT; modified agglutination test; Pig; Rhoptry antigens; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; ROP 1 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS MIESCHERIANA; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 33745151992     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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