Immunoglobulin G subclass responses to recombinant Em18 in the follow-up of patients with alveolar echinococcosis in different clinical stages

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 944-948

  Tappe, Dennis ^a   Sako, Yasuhito ^c   Itoh, Sonoyo ^c   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Grüner, Beate ^b   Kern, Peter ^b   Ito, Akira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EM18 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KINETICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, PULMONARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953160097     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00026-10     Document Type: Article

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