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Eufrosina S Umezawa1, Alejandro O Luquetti, Gabriela Levitus, Carlos Ponce, Elisa Ponce, Diana Henriquez, Susana Revollo, Bertha Espinoza, Octavio Sousa, Baldip Khan, José Franco da Silveira.
Abstract
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to diagnose Chagas' disease by a serological test was performed with Trypanosoma cruzi recombinant antigens (JL8, MAP, and TcPo). High sensitivity (99.4%) and specificity (99.3%) were obtained when JL8 was combined with MAP (JM) and tested with 150 serum samples from chagasic and 142 nonchagasic individuals. Moreover, JM also diagnosed 84.2% of patients in the acute phase of T. cruzi infection.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14715803 PMCID: PMC321695 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.1.449-452.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948