Visceral / diagnosis
Evaluation of the direct agglutination test and the rK39 dipstick test for the sero-diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis
... The direct agglutination test (DAT) based on a freeze-dried antigen and the rK39 dipstick test were evaluated for the sero-diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The sensitivity and specificity of both ...
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Evaluation of an rK39-based immunochromatographic test for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in human saliva
... for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic area in ...(2013). Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar India: comparison of the rK39 rapid diagnostic test on whole blood versus ...
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Evaluation of Change in Canine Diagnosis Protocol Adopted by the Visceral Leishmaniasis Control Program in Brazil and a New Proposal for Diagnosis
... the diagnosis of CVL, the VLCSP has recommended using an immunochromatographic rapid test comprising rK26 and rK39 recombinant antigens, the Dual-Path Platform (DPP; Bio- Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, ...
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Sensitivity and specificity of polymerase chain reaction in Giemsa-stained slides for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in children
... for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), and to compare PCR with conventional diagnostic techniques, like direct microscopy and parasite ...confirming diagnosis in patients with VL and may be ...
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Estudo comparativo entre metodologias para o diagnóstico da leishmaniose visceral humana: uma revisão integrativa / Comparative study methodologies for the diagnosis of human visceral leishmaniasis: an integrative review
... the diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis ...the diagnosis of VL showed significant variations in relation to its sensitivity and there is a need for more than a different methodology to confirm the ...
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Performance of IFAT, ELISA, direct parasitological examination and PCR on lymph node aspirates for canine visceral leishmaniasis diagnosis
... Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is a global ...its diagnosis, which is based on antibody detection and consequently presents many limitations ...
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Polymerase chain reaction of peripheral blood as a tool for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in children
... the diagnosis and monitoring of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients: a sin- gle-center, 8-year experience in Italy and review of the ...
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Validity of the polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of clinically suspected cases of American visceral leishmaniasis
... American visceral leish- maniasis (AVL) is endemic are not always able to diagnose the cases due to regional concurrence of other diseases with similar ...Definitive diagnosis is made by the identification ...
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Improving the reference standard for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis: a challenge for current and future tests
... Samples - The samples used in this study are part of a biobank kept at the Laboratory for Leishmaniasis at the Centre for Tropical Medicine (NMT/FM/UnB) obtained during the study “Risk, diagnosis and progno- sis ...
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Diagnosis of human visceral pentastomiasis.
... In a recently published case [1], an immigrant from Kazakhstan was admitted to a hospital in Germany with persistent cough and night sweats. The patient had a normal white blood cell count (7,140 cells/ml) with mild ...
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Comparison of serological assays for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in animals presenting different clinical manifestations
... the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL), have been ...for visceral leishmaniasis, were submitted to clinical and parasitological examinations and serological ...the diagnosis of ...
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Recombinant leishmania (Leishmania) infantum ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase NTPDase-2 as a new antigen in canine visceral leishmaniasis diagnosis.
... Canine visceral leishmaniasis is an important public health ...human visceral leishmaniasis, dogs are considered the main reservoir of Leishmania parasites; therefore, dogs must be epidemiologically ...
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Comparison of conventional methods for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in children of the Center-West Region of Brazil
... for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis, such as polymerase chain reaction-based assays, are only available in major research centers, whereas conventional methods are still used in many areas where the ...
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Canine visceral leishmaniasis: Diagnosis and management of the reservoir living among us
... “canine visceral leishmaniasis,” “leish- maniasis,” “diagnosis,” “molecular diagnostic methods,” “serology,” “treatment,” “xenodiagnosis,” “infectivity,” “prevention,” “control,” “dog culling,” and ...
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Design, development and evaluation of rK28-based point-of-care tests for improving rapid diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis.
... Disease-positive sera from 62 VL patients were obtained from the Gedaref state of eastern Sudan. The inclusion criteria for VL sera samples used in this study were, (i) all patients were parasitology positive, confirmed ...
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Potential application of rLc36 protein for diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis
... Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is fatal if left untreated. Infected dogs are important reservoirs of the disease, and thus specific identification of infected animals is very important. Several diagnostic tests have ...
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Accuracy of quantitative polymerase chain reaction in samples of frozen and paraffin- embedded healthy skin for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis
... leishmaniose visceral canina pelas técnicas de imunoistoquímica e PCR em tecidos cutâneos sem associação com a RIFI e ...the diagnosis of culture confirmed American Tegumentary ...
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Comparative evaluation of several methods for Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis diagnosis
... he aim of the present study was to evaluate the serological methods using ELISA with recombinant-rK39 (ELISA-rK-39) and soluble extract-SE (ELISA-SE) antigens, the indirect luorescence antibody test (IFAT) in comparison ...
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Validity and reliability of enzyme immunoassays using Leishmania major or L. infantum antigens for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil.
... parasitological diagnosis and 71 negative ...parasitological diagnosis for the calculation of sensitivity and exclusively sera from dogs defined as negative for the calculation of specificity, an approach ...
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Can spleen aspirations be safely used for the parasitological diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniosis? A study on assymptomatic and polysymptomatic animals
... Most dogs (87%) were seropositive for anti-L. chagasi antibodies by ELISA. Clinical signs of disease were recorded and the ani- mals monitored during and after spleen puncture in order to detect possible complications ...
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