Avidity of IgG antibodies against excreted/secreted antigens of Toxoplasma gondii: Immunological marker for acute recent toxoplasmosis

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-147

  Araújo, Patrícia Regina Barboza ^a   Ferreira, Antonio Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Avidity; Excreted secreted antigens; Serology; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXCRETION; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 45749112102     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822008000200002     Document Type: Article

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