Cystic echinococcosis: Progress and limits in epidemiology and immunodiagnosis

Parassitologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 65-66

  Siracusano, A ^a   Bruschi, F ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echinococcus granulosus; Epidemiology; Immunodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN 5, ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ANTIGEN B, ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GLYCOPROTEIN; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; LIPOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; ITALY; LARVA; LIPOPROTEINS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS;

EID: 33748628506     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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