The combination of three faecal parasitological methods to improve the diagnosis of schistosomiasis mansoni in a low endemic setting in the state of Ceará, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 873-876

  Pinheiro, Marta Cristhiany Cunha ^a   Carneiro, Teiliane Rodrigues ^a   Hanemann, Ana Lúcia de Paula ^a   de Oliveira, Sara Menezes ^a   Bezerra, Fernando Schemelzer Moraes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; ELISA; Helmintex ; Kato Katz; Saline gradient; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HUMANS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 84869149898     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700006     Document Type: Article

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