Sensitive and specific immunohistochemical diagnosis of human alveolar echinococcosis with the monoclonal antibody Em2G11.

• Главные авторы: Thomas F E Barth (Автор), Tobias S Herrmann (Автор), Dennis Tappe (Автор), Lorenz Stark (Автор), Beate Grüner (Автор), Klaus Buttenschoen (Автор), Andreas Hillenbrand (Автор), Markus Juchems (Автор), Doris Henne-Bruns (Автор), Petra Kern (Автор), Hanns M Seitz (Автор), Peter Möller (Автор), Robert L Rausch (Автор), Peter Kern (Автор), Peter Deplazes (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the metacestode stage of Echinococcus multilocularis. Differential diagnosis with cystic echinococcosis (CE) caused by E. granulosus and AE is challenging. We aimed at improving diagnosis of AE on paraffin sections of infected human tissue by imm...