Seroprevalence of angiostrongylus cantonensis in wild rodents from the Canary Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Martin Alonso, Aarón ^a   Foronda, Pilar ^a   Quispe Ricalde, María Antonieta ^a   Feliu, Carlos ^b   Valladares, Basilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELUTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; RISK; WILD ANIMAL;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; MOLLUSCA; MURIDAE; NEMATODA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERMES;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RATS; RISK; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 81055143768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027747     Document Type: Article

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