Rapid point-of-contact tool for mapping and integrated surveillance of Wuchereria bancrofti and Onchocerca volvulus infection

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 896-901

  Steel, Cathy ^a   Golden, Allison ^b   Stevens, Eric ^b   Yokobe, Lindsay ^b   Domingo, Gonzalo J ^b   De los Santos, Tala ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

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

^b PATH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL FLOW BIPLEX STRIP TEST; LOA LOA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEMATODIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI INFECTION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84939508402     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00227-15     Document Type: Article

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