Seroprevalence of Taenia solium infections in Croatian patients presenting with epilepsy

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-262

  Mestrovic T ^a   Sviben, M ^b   Vilibic Cavlek T ^b   Ljubin Sternak, S ^b   Tabain, I ^b   Mlinaric Galinovic G ^b  

^a Polyclinic for Medical Microbiology and Parasitology Dr Zora Profozic   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROATIA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; TAENIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; CYSTICERCOSIS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TAENIA SOLIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 84864339360     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: 14752697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X11000253     Document Type: Article

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