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Poonum S Korpe1, Blake R Stott, Forida Nazib, Mamun Kabir, Rashidul Haque, Joel F Herbein, William A Petri.
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Amebiasis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. A reliable point-of-care test would help to improve diagnosis and early treatment. We evaluated a novel rapid fecal antigen detection test for E. histolytica (E. HISTOLYTICA QUIK CHEK; TechLab, Inc., Blacksburg, VA), in a cohort of children in Bangladesh where amebiasis is endemic. This point-of-care test had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 100% when compared with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay antigen detection.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22665604 PMCID: PMC3366543 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0661
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN: 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345