Conformation-sensitive immunoassays improve the serodiagnosis of solitary cysticercus granuloma in Indian patients

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 570-577

  Prabhakaran, Vasudevan ^a   Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a   Murrell, Kenneth Darwin ^b   Oommen, Anna ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conformation sensitive immunoassays; Neurocysticercosis; Solitary cysticercus granuloma; Taenia solium; Transverse urea gradient gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DISULFIDE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN; PARASITE ANTIBODY; UREA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCUS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYSTICERCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; GRANULOMA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

LENS CULINARIS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 34247132994     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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