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

• Main Authors: Thomas F E Barth (Author), Tobias S Herrmann (Author), Dennis Tappe (Author), Lorenz Stark (Author), Beate Grüner (Author), Klaus Buttenschoen (Author), Andreas Hillenbrand (Author), Markus Juchems (Author), Doris Henne-Bruns (Author), Petra Kern (Author), Hanns M Seitz (Author), Peter Möller (Author), Robert L Rausch (Author), Peter Kern (Author), Peter Deplazes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...