Accuracy of Five Serologic Tests for the Follow up of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Buonfrate, Dora ^a,b   Sequi, Marco ^c   Mejia, Rojelio ^d   Cimino, Ruben O ^e   Krolewiecki, Alejandro J ^e   Albonico, Marco ^a,b   Degani, Monica ^a   Tais, Stefano ^a   Angheben, Andrea ^a,b   Requena Mendez, Ana ^b,f   Muñoz, José ^b,f   Nutman, Thomas B ^d   Bisoffi, Zeno ^a,b  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

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

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; TIABENDAZOLE; HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO DIAGNOSTIC ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE ANTIBODY TEST; LUCIFERASE IMMUNO PRECIPITATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY ELISA KIT; PARASITOLOGY IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE ASSAY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEROLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 84924027039     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003491     Document Type: Article

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