Strongyloides venezuelensis: The antigenic identity of eight strains for the immunodiagnosis of human strongyloidiasis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-14

  Machado, Eleuza Rodrigues ^a   Faccioli, Lúcia Helena ^b   Costa Cruz, Julia Maria ^c   Lourenço, Elaine Vicente ^b   Roque Barreira, Maria Cristina ^b   Gonçalves Pires, Maria do Rosário de Fátima ^c   Ueta, Marlene Tiduko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Antigen; Diagnosis; ELISA; IFAT; Immunoblot; Strongyloides venezuelensis; Strongyloidiasis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDES VENEZUELENSIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LARVA; RATS; RODENTIA; SIGMODONTINAE; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS; STRONGYLOIDES VENEZUELENSIS;

EID: 41449117445     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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