TY - BOOK AU - Samah Sayed Mohammed Abdelgawad AU - Enas Yahia AbuSarea Mohamed , AU - Mousa Abdelgawad Mousa , AU - Wahed Mohammed Ali Mousa , TI - Comparative study on immunoblot technique and PCR in diagnosis of schistosomiasis mansoni in experimental animals / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Samah Sayed Mohammed Abdelgawad , KW - PCR KW - Schistosoma mansoni KW - Western blot technique N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Parasitology; Issued also as CD N2 - Schistosomiases, the major public health problem in rural Egypt, with almost six million people were infested so the early diagnosis is essential for adequate treatment of acute infection. In this study, we compare PCR and western blot techniques in diagnosis of schistosomiasis mansoni. Forty swiss albino mice were used, thirty two mice were infected with cercariae of and mansoni and eight mice were kept non infected which were used as a control ER -