Day-to-day fluctuation of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen test scores and faecal egg counts in children infected with Schistosoma mansoni in Ethiopia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Degarege, Abraham ^a   Legesse, Mengistu ^a   Medhin, Girmay ^a   Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a   Erko, Berhanu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Kato Katz method; Schistosoma mansoni; Urine CCA cassette; Variation

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CIRCULATING CATHODIC ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KATO KATZ METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84900029596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-210     Document Type: Article

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