| Literature DB >> 18987172 |
Yasuhito Sako1, Kenta Fukuda, Yukuharu Kobayashi, Akira Ito.
Abstract
An immunochromatographic test (ICT) for the rapid detection of antibodies to Echinococcus multilocularis was developed. The ICT showed a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 95.4%. High degrees of agreement were observed between the ICT and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (kappa = 0.93) and between the ICT and immunoblot analysis (kappa = 0.97). It is expected that the ICT developed in this study will be useful for the serodiagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18987172 PMCID: PMC2620879 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01476-08
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948