Serum IgG responses and seroconversion patterns to cryptosporidium gp15 among children in a birth cohort in south India

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 849-854

  Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Ajjampur, Sitara Swarna Rao ^a   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Ward, Honorine ^a,b   Naumova, Elena N ^a,c   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 15; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MATERNAL BLOOD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEROCONVERSION;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84861739235     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00051-12     Document Type: Article

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