PREVALENCE OF HUMAN ALVEOLAR ECHINOCOCCOSIS IN HOKKAIDO AS EVALUATED BY WESTERN BLOTTING
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Editorial Committee of Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Infectious Dis in Japanese Journal of Medical Science and Biology
- Vol. 43 (2) , 43-49
- https://doi.org/10.7883/yoken1952.43.43
Abstract
The Western blotting (WB) method was used to evaluate the prevalence of human alveolar echinococcosis in Hokkaido, Japan. One hundred and sixteen WB-positive serum specimens were found in 1987 and 1988, and were grouped into two serologically different types from their WB-immunostaining patterns: “complete type”, that showed multiple bands with various molecular weights ranging from 29 to 205 kilodaltons (kDa), and “incomplete type”, that revealed a few bands with low molecular weights of 30-35 kDa and/or with molecular weights higher than 90 kDa. Therefore, we found that the WB method is applicable for the sero-epidemiological studies of human alveolar echinococcosis in Hokkaido.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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