Open AccessUse of the ELISA (Em2-Em18) and Western Blotting Methods on Diagnosis of Alveolar Echinococcosis
Author(s) -
Mehtap Demirkazık,
İsmail Soner Koltaş,
Tonay İnceboz,
Metin Korkmaz,
Derya Gümürdülü
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
türkiye parazitoloji dergisi/türkiye parazitoloji dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2146-3077
pISSN - 1300-6320
DOI - 10.4274/tpd.galenos.2019.6447
Subject(s) - serology , alveolar echinococcosis , echinococcosis , medicine , echinococcus multilocularis , echinococcus , blot , antibody , western blot , gastroenterology , immunology , pathology , biology , biochemistry , gene
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is one of the most lethal parasitic zoonoses in the Northern Hemisphere, and early serological detection is important to start treatment and to improve survival. A total of 50 sera samples of patients diagnosed as having various diseases were examined for by two different serological diagnostic methods.