Antibodies to an epitope from the Cha human autoantigen are markers of Chagas' disease.

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Published in Clin Diagn Lab Immunol on November 01, 2001

Authors

N Gironès1, C I Rodríguez, B Basso, J M Bellon, S Resino, M A Muñoz-Fernández, S Gea, E Moretti, M Fresno

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1: Centro de Biología Molecular, CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

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