Use of antifilarial IgG4‐ELISA to detect Brugia malayi infection in an endemic area of Malaysia
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 3 (3) , 184-188
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00229.x
Abstract
Summary objective To evaluate the usefulness of antifilarial IgG4 antibody assay in detecting B. malayi infection in a filaria endemic area in Malaysia.methods A sandwich ELISA using B. ...Keywords
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