Detection of secreted cysticercal antigen: A useful tool in the diagnosis of inflammatory neurocysticercosis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 542-546

  Fleury, A ^a,b   Hernandez M ^c   Fragoso, G ^c   Parkhouse, R M E ^d   Harrison, L J S ^e   Sciutto, Edda ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigen detection; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Immunodiagnosis; Mexico; Neurocysticercosis; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; CYSTICERCUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYSTICERCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 7244231193     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80019-6     Document Type: Article

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