Rapid Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in Human Serum by Use of an Immunochromatographic Dipstick Test
- 1 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 48 (8), 3003-3007
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02474-09
Abstract
We evaluated a commercially available immunochromatographic dipstick test to detect Trypanosoma cruzi infection in 366 human serum samples with known serological results from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela. One hundred forty-nine of 366 (40.7%) and 171/366 (46.7%) samples tested positive by dipstick and serology, respectively. Dipstick sensitivity was calculated to be 84.8% (range between countries, 77.5 to 95%), and specificity was 97.9% (95.9 to 100%).This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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