Accuracy of Urine Circulating Cathodic Antigen Test for the Diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni in Preschool-Aged Children before and after Treatment

BACKGROUND: The Kato-Katz technique is widely used for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni, but shows low sensitivity in light-intensity infections. We assessed the accuracy of a commercially available point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) cassette test for the diagnosis of S. manson...

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Main Authors: Coulibaly, Jean T., N'Gbesso, Yves K., Knopp, Stefanie, N'Guessan, Nicaise A., Silué, Kigbafori D., van Dam, Govert J., N'Goran, Eliézer K., Utzinger, Jürg
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605147/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23556011
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002109
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