Towards a new reference test for surra in camels

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 999-1002

  Tran, Thao ^a,b,c   Claes, Filip ^a,d   Verloo, Didier ^e   De Greve, Henri ^b,c   Büscher, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT EXTRACELLULAR DOMAIN OF INVARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN 75; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAMEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOLD STANDARD; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SERUM; SURRA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CAMELS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 67650410436     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00096-09     Document Type: Article

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