Background noise of infection for using ANCA as a diagnostic tool for vasculitis in tropical and developing countries

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1093-1095

  Ghosh, Kanjaksha ^a   Pradhan, Vandana ^a   Ghosh, Kinjalka ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS; TUBERCULOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 41549145660     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0929-0     Document Type: Article

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