Screening for cystic echinococcosis in an endemic region of Peru using portable ultrasonography and the enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay

Parasitology Research

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 242-246

  Moro, Pedro L ^a   Garcia, Hector H ^b   Gonzales, Armando E ^c   Bonilla, Juan J ^d   Verastegui, Manuela ^b   GilmanMD, Robert H ^e  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^d Secretario General de la Asociación Peruana para el estudio del Hígado Unidad de Hígado del Policlínico Peruano Japonés   (Peru)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic echinococcosis; Enzyme linked immunoelectrotransfer blot; Epidemiology; Peru; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOELECTROTRANSFER BLOT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CHILD; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 21644471429     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1350-6     Document Type: Article

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