Seroprevalence of Taenia solium antibodies in Vellore district, south India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 246-250

  Prabhakaran, V ^a   Raghava, M Venkata ^a   Rajshekhar, V ^a   Muliyil, J ^a   Oommen, A ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cysticercus; India; Neurocysticercosis; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CYSTICERCUS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; SANITATION; SEROPREVALENCE; TAENIA SOLIUM; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RURAL HEALTH; SWINE; TAENIA SOLIUM; URBAN HEALTH;

ANIMALIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 38949141553     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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