Comparison of recombinant Trypanosoma cruzi peptide mixtures versus multiepitope chimeric proteins as sensitizing antigens for immunodiagnosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 899-905

  Camussone, Cecilia ^a   Gonzalez, Verónica ^a   Belluzo, María S ^b   Pujato, Nazarena ^a   Ribone, María E ^b   Lagier, Claudia M ^b   Marcipar, Iván S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c Ciudad Universitaria   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CP1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CP2; RP1 ANTIGEN; RP2 ANTIGEN; RP3 ANTIGEN; RP4 ANTIGEN; RP5 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEISHMANIASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 67249127989     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00005-09     Document Type: Article

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