TY - CHAP AU - Wenbao Zhang AU - Jun Li AU - Renyong Lin AU - Hao Wen AU - Donald P. McManus ED - Moslih Al-Moslih Y1 - 2012-03-21 PY - 2012 T1 - Recent Advances in the Immunology and Serological Diagnosis of Echinococcosis N2 - This book explains the concept of serological methods used in laboratory diagnoses of certain bacteria, mycoplasmas, viruses in humans, animals and plants, certain parasitic agents as well as autoimmune disease. The authors present up-to-date information concerning the serological methods in laboratory diagnosis of such infectious diseases. Section one deals with the serological methods for bacteria. Section 2 deals with serological methods in human, animal and plant viruses. Section 3 is concerned with the serological laboratory diagnosis of echinococcus and human toxocariasis agents. The last section deals with serological laboratory methods in the diagnosis of coeliac disease. BT - Serological Diagnosis of Certain Human, Animal and Plant Diseases SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/37133 DO - 10.5772/37133 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -