Newly established monoclonal antibody diagnostic assays for Schistosoma mansoni direct detection in areas of low endemicity.

Current available methods for diagnosis of schistosomiasis mansoni lack sufficient sensitivity, which results in underreporting of infectious in areas of low endemicity.We developed three novel diagnostic methodologies for the direct detection of schistosome infection in serum samples. These three n...

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Main Authors: Rafaella Fortini Queiroz Grenfell, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, Diana Taboada, Ana Carolina Alves de Mattos, Ruth Davis, Donald A Harn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3909226?pdf=render

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