Evaluation of Taenia solium and Taenia crassiceps cysticercal antigens for immunodiagnosis of neurocysticercosis using ELISA on cerebrospinal fluid samples

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-155

  Suzuki, Lisandra Akemi ^a   Arruda, Gisele Cristina ^a   Quagliato, Elizabeth Maria Aparecida Barasnevicius ^a   Rossi, Cláudio Lúcio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cysticercal antigens; ELISA; Neurocysticercosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 34250326681     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822007000200002     Document Type: Article

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