Short report: Immunoblot diagnostic test for neurognathostomiasis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 927-929

  Intapan, Pewpan M ^a   Khotsri, Piyarat ^a   Kanpittaya, Jaturat ^a   Chotmongkol, Verajit ^a   Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak ^a   Maleewong, Wanchai ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GNATHOSTOMIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MYELITIS; NEUROGNATHOSTOMIASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADICULAR PAIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THAILAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRURID INFECTION; THELAZIA;

GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM HELMINTHIASIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958075733     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0113     Document Type: Article

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