Prevalence of antibodies and cell mediated immune response against Leishmania major in feral nonhuman primates from Kenya

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-140

  Gicheru, M M ^a,b   Jeneby, M M ^a   Macharia, J C ^a   Carlsson, H E ^a   Suleman, M A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kenya; Leishmaniasis; Nonhuman primates; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; BABOON; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CERCOPITHECUS; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; KENYA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERCOPITHECINAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; KENYA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPHOCYTES; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PRIMATE DISEASES; PRIMATES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 57849135640     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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