Cross-Reactivity of Filariais ICT Cards in Areas of Contrasting Endemicity of Loa loa and Mansonella perstans in Cameroon: Implications for Shrinking of the Lymphatic Filariasis Map in the Central African Region

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Wanji, Samuel ^a,b   Amvongo Adjia, Nathalie ^b,c   Koudou, Benjamin ^d   Njouendou, Abdel Jelil ^a,b   Chounna Ndongmo, Patrick W ^a,b   Kengne Ouafo, Jonas A ^a,b   Datchoua Poutcheu, Fabrice R ^b   Fovennso, Bridget Adzemye ^b   Tayong, Dizzle Bita ^a,b   Fombad, Fanny Fri ^a,b   Fischer, Peter U ^e   Enyong, Peter I ^a,b   Bockarie, Moses ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment REFOTDE   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC CARD TEST; LOA LOA; LOIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; MANSONELLIASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOA; PARASITE LOAD; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CAMEROON; CHILD; CROSS REACTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; LOA; LOIASIS; MALE; MANSONELLIASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE LOAD; RURAL POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949575342     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004184     Document Type: Article

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