Diagnostic Accuracy of Five Serologic Tests for Strongyloides stercoralis Infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-

  Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Buonfrate, Dora ^a   Sequi, Marco ^b   Mejia, Rojelio ^c   Cimino, Ruben O ^d   Krolewiecki, Alejandro J ^d   Albonico, Marco ^a   Gobbo, Maria ^a   Bonafini, Stefania ^a   Angheben, Andrea ^a   Requena Mendez, Ana ^e   Muñoz, José ^e   Nutman, Thomas B ^c  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORDIER ELISA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IFAT; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; IVD ELISA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NIE ELISA; NIE LIPS; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893785124     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002640     Document Type: Article

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