Evaluation of anti-Schistosoma mansoni igG antibodies in patients with chronic schistosomiasis mansoni before and after specific treatment

The circumoval precipitin test (COPT), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the immunoblotting anti-adult worm antigen (AWA) and soluble egg antigen (SEA) tests were applied to 17 chronically schistosome-infected patients for the detection of anti-Schistosoma mansoni antibodies before and o...

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Main Authors: Célia Maria V. VENDRAME, Márcia Dias T. CARVALHO, Célia Regina F. YAMAMOTO, Maria Cristina NAKHLE, Silvino Alves CARVALHO, Pedro Paulo CHIEFFI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2001-06-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652001000300007&tlng=en