Reliable serodiagnosis of imported cystic echinococcosis with a commercial indirect hemagglutination assay.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 57(4): 409-12, 2007 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-17189677
ABSTRACT
A commercially available indirect hemagglutination assay (IHA) (Echinococcosis Fumouze; Laboratoires Fumouze, Levallois-Perret, France) was evaluated using sera from 52 patients with proven cystic echinococcosis. The specificity was assessed using 247 sera from patients with various parasitic, bacterial, viral, and fungal infectious diseases; sera containing autoimmune antibodies; and sera from healthy blood donors. With a cutoff value for a positive result of 320 (as recommended by the manufacturer), the sensitivity and specificity were 88% and 98.4%; with a cutoff of 160, the sensitivity and specificity were 94% and 95.1%, respectively. The IHA is rapid, easy to perform, and is a very sensitive serodiagnostic test for cystic echinococcosis.
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Assunto principal:
Kit de Reagentes para Diagnóstico
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Testes de Hemaglutinação
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Equinococose
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Echinococcus
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Antígenos de Helmintos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Holanda