Filarial antigenemia and Loa loa night blood microfilaremia in an area without bancroftian filariasis in the democratic republic of Congo

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1142-1148

  Bakajika, Didier K ^a   Nigo, Maurice M ^a   Lotsima, Jean Pierre ^a   Masikini, Germain A ^a   Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Lloyd, Melanie M ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a   Fischer, Peter U ^a,b  

^a Democratic Republic of Congo

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CONGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOA LOA; LOIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; MICROFILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOA; MICROFILARIA;

LOA LOA; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HUMANS; LOA; LOIASIS; MICROFILARIA;

EID: 84918780772     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0358     Document Type: Article

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