Serological evidence for human cystic echinococcosis in Slovenia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Logar, Jernej ^a   Soba, Barbara ^a   Kotar, Tadeja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOVENIA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CYST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTS; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SLOVENIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 44949256218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-63     Document Type: Article

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