Immunodiagnostic methods: what is their role in areas of low endemicity?
ScientificWorldJournal
; 2012: 593947, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
Worldwide Schistosomiasis mansoni continues to be a serious public health problem. Over the past decades, control programmes have made remarkable progress in reducing S. mansoni infections to a relatively low level in Brazil and African countries. Endemic regions are currently circumscribed in certain core areas where reinfection and repeated chemotherapy are frequent and, consequently, are related to residents with low parasite load. At present, diagnosis is predominately a key step for final disease control although low endemicity area residents are hardly detected by most of the available assays. In this paper, we review the current status and efforts made aiming at the improvement of diagnostic tools for S. mansoni in low endemicity infections. The establishment of diagnostic assays--simple, affordable, sensitive, and specific for field diagnosis of S. mansoni--is essential and should be given high priority.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Esquistossomose mansoni
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Antígenos de Helmintos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
ScientificWorldJournal
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil