Serodiagnosis of neurocysticercosis in patients with epileptic seizure using ELISA and immunoblot assay

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 343-346

  Ishida, Maria Marcia I ^a   Peralta, Regina Helena S ^b   Livramento, José A ^c   Hoshino Shimizu, Sumie ^c   Peralta, José M ^d   Vaz, Adelaide J ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; ELISA; Immunoblot; Serological diagnosis; Taenia crassiceps; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846238158     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652006000600008     Document Type: Article

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