Publication Date:
1986-11-21
Description:
Parasitic diseases are still prevalent in many parts of the world, causing both human suffering and economic loss. Recent developments in biotechnology, such as the use of monoclonal antibodies and recombinant DNA, have the potential for providing both more extensive and detailed information on the parasite in the infected human and in insect vectors. New methods of detection, both in man and insect vectors, have been developed for two parasitic diseases, leishmaniasis and malaria. These new methodologies will be important in epidemiologic studies on the prevalence and transmission of these parasitic diseases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wirth, D F -- Rogers, W O -- Barker, R Jr -- Dourado, H -- Suesebang, L -- Albuquerque, B -- AI 19392/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI 21365/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Nov 21;234(4779):975-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3535070" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antibodies, Monoclonal
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DNA/isolation & purification
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DNA, Recombinant
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Epidemiologic Methods
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Humans
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Insect Vectors
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Leishmania/classification/genetics
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Leishmaniasis/*diagnosis/epidemiology
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Malaria/*diagnosis/epidemiology
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Nucleic Acid Hybridization
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Plasmodium falciparum/genetics/immunology
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Plasmodium vivax/genetics/immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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