Comparison between the skin snip test and simple dot blot assay as potential rapid assessment tools for onchocerciasis in the postcontrol era in Ghana

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1014-1020

  Guzman G E ^a   Awadzi, K ^a   Opoku, N ^a   Narayanan, R B ^a   Akuffo, H O ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SKIN TEST;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BIOPSY; CROSS REACTIONS; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SCREENING; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN;

EID: 0036731883     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.5.1014-1020.2002     Document Type: Article

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