title: Prevalence of human alveolar echinococcosis in Hokkaido as evaluated by western blotting.
abstract: The Western blotting (WB) method was used to evaluate the prevalence of human alveolar echinococcosis in Hokkaido, Japan. One hundred and sixteen WB-positive serum specimens were found in 1987 and 1988, and were grouped into two serologically different types from their WB-immunostaining patterns: "complete type", that showed multiple bands with various molecular weights ranging from 29 to 205 kilodaltons (kDa), and "incomplete type", that revealed a few bands with low molecular weights of 30-35 kDa and/or with molecular weights higher than 90 kDa. Therefore, we found that the WB method is applicable for the sero-epidemiological studies of human alveolar echinococcosis in Hokkaido.
authors: Department of Epidemiology, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Furuya
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Nishizuka
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Honma
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Kumagai
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Sato
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Takahashi
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Uchino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged