Highly effective serodiagnosis for Chagas' disease

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1598-1604

  Hernández, Pilar ^a   Heimann, Michael ^a   Riera, Cristina ^b   Solano, Marco ^c   Santalla, José ^d   Luquetti, Alejandro O ^e   Beck, Ewald ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c SEDES   (Bolivia)

^d Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTIGEN B13; ANTIGEN CRA; ANTIGEN TCD; ANTIGEN TCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CODON; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITOLOGY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77957869807     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00489-08     Document Type: Article

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