Advances in the diagnosis of human schistosomiasis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 939-967

  Weerakoon, Kosala G A D ^a,b,c   Gobert, Geoffrey N ^a   Cai, Pengfei ^a   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; CHITINASE; CIRCULATING ANODIC ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; HIPPURIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; ISOCITRIC ACID; LAMININ; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MICRORNA; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PRAZIQUANTEL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOSENSOR; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LIVER DISEASE; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; NONHUMAN; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; ANIMAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SNAIL; TRENDS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA;

ANIMALS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84939786002     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00137-14     Document Type: Article

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