Development of an ELISA to detect the humoral immune response to Trichinella zimbabwensis in Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 194, Issue 2-4, 2013, Pages 189-192

  Ludovisi, Alessandra ^a   La Grange, Louis J ^b   Gómez Morales, Maria A ^a   Pozio, Edoardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Chief Directorate Veterinary Services ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Circulating antibodies; ELISA; Nile crocodile; Serology; Trichinella zimbabwensis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EXCRETORY SECTRETORY ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCODILE; CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LARVA; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA ZIMBABWENSIS; TRICHINOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CROCODILIAN; DISEASE CARRIER; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA PAPUAE; TRICHINELLA ZIMBABWENSIS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; LARVA; MALE; MICE; MUSCLES; RABBITS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLOSIS;

EID: 84877716116     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.01.053     Document Type: Article

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