Relationship between Serum Antibodies and Taenia solium Larvae Burden in Pigs Raised in Field Conditions

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gavidia, Cesar M ^a   Verastegui, Manuela R ^b   Garcia, Hector H ^b   Lopez Urbina, Teresa ^a   Tsang, Victor C W ^c   Pan, William ^d   Gilman, Robert H ^e   Gonzalez, Armando E ^a   Rodriguez, Silvia ^f   Gomez, Luis ^f   Lescano, Guillermo ^f   Ayvar, Viterbo ^f   Escalante, Hermes ^f   Jimenez, Juan ^f   Gonzalvez, Guillermo ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; TAENIASIS;

EID: 84878497975     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002192     Document Type: Article

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