Extended Result Reading Window in Lateral Flow Tests Detecting Exposure to Onchocerca volvulus: A New Technology to Improve Epidemiological Surveillance Tools

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Golden, Allison ^a   Steel, Cathy ^b   Yokobe, Lindsay ^a   Jackson, Emily ^a   Barney, Rebecca ^a   Kubofcik, Joseph ^b   Peck, Roger ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^c   Nutman, Thomas B ^b   de los Santos, Tala ^a   Domingo, Gonzalo J ^a  

^a PATH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PYROXYLIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD FILTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LATERAL FLOW TEST; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; COLLODION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84880734333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069231     Document Type: Article

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