Short communication: Towards saliva-based screening for sleeping sickness?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 585-588

  Lejon, V ^a   Kwete, J ^b   Buscher P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Prog Natl Lutte Contre T   (Congo)

Author keywords

CATT T. b. gambiense; Diagnosis; ELISA; LATEX T. b. gambiense; Saliva; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; HEALTH MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 0042203842     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01077.x     Document Type: Article

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