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Evaluating a point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen test (POC-CCA) to detec...
Bezerra, Fernando Schemelzer Moraes; Leal, Joames Kauffimann Freitas; Sousa, Mariana Silva; Pinheiro, Marta Cristhiany CunhaSchistosomiasis is still a public health problem in Brazil. The Kato-Katz test is the most frequently used diagnostic method for Schistosoma mansoni infection. However, it lacks sensitivity in areas of low prevalence. We have assessed the positivity rate of S. mansoni infection in Bananeiras, a village on Capistrano, Ceara, Brazil by performing a point-of-care test in urine to determine the circulating cathodic...
Diagnóstico da esquistossomose mansoni em área de baixa endemicidade através do...
Leal, Joames Kauffimann FreitasThe detection of circulating antigens has been an alternative to the problems with the diagnosis of schistosomiasis, the disease that affects approximately 200 million people in 74 countries, worldwide. A newly developed immunoassay to detection of CCA (POC-CCA, point- of-care) in urine have shown high sensitivity and specificity for the schistosomiasis study . However, the most of all studies was carryed in ar...