Using the AD12-ICT rapid-format test to detect Wuchereria bancrofti circulating antigens in comparison to Og4C3-ELISA and nucleopore membrane filtration and microscopy techniques

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1379-1383

  El Moamly, Amal Abdul Rasheed ^a   El Sweify, Mohamed Aly ^a   Hafez, Mohamad Abdul ^b  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING FILARIAL ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AD12 RAPID FORMAT IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC TEST; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROFILARIASIS; MICROSCOPY; MIGRANT WORKER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PHILIPPINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SRI LANKA; SUDAN; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84866129913     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-2870-5     Document Type: Article

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