Analysis on the reactivity of five subunits of antigen B family in serodiagnosis of echinococcosis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-91

  Jiang, Li ^a   Zhang, Yao guang ^a   Liu, Mei xia ^a   Feng, Zheng ^b  

^a Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Shanghai Insts of Preventive Medicine   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

AgB antigen family; Cocktail antigens; Echinococcosis; IgG subclass; Reactive epitope; Recombinant subunits of antigen B

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTICERCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; GENE LIBRARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS;

EID: 84860265538     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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