Brugia malayi Wolbachia hsp60 IgG antibody and isotype reactivity in different clinical groups infected or exposed to human bancroftian lymphatic filariasis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-295

  Suba, N ^a   Shiny, C ^a   Taylor, M J ^b   Narayanan, R B ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody; Brugia malayi; Heat shock protein 60 (hsp60); IgG; IgG1, 2, 3, 4; Inflammation; Isotype; Wolbachia; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUGIA MALAYI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHAPERONIN 60; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA MALAYI; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 34248212207     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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