Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria

In this study, we show that 40.29% of travellers with a possible history of malaria exposure were positive for anti-Plasmodium spp. antibodies, while these individuals were negative by microscopy. The antibody test described here is useful to elucidate malaria exposure in microscopy-negative travell...

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Autores principales: Medina Costa, Rita, de Sousa, Karina Pires, Atouguia, Jorge, Tavira, Luis Távora, Silva, Marcelo Sousa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/247273
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Atouguia, Jorge
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spelling pubmed-36492802013-05-20 Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria Medina Costa, Rita de Sousa, Karina Pires Atouguia, Jorge Tavira, Luis Távora Silva, Marcelo Sousa J Parasitol Res Clinical Study In this study, we show that 40.29% of travellers with a possible history of malaria exposure were positive for anti-Plasmodium spp. antibodies, while these individuals were negative by microscopy. The antibody test described here is useful to elucidate malaria exposure in microscopy-negative travellers from endemic countries. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3649280/ /pubmed/23691274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/247273 Text en Copyright © 2013 Rita Medina Costa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria
title_full Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria
title_fullStr Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria
title_short Prevalence and Level of Antibodies Anti-Plasmodium spp. in Travellers with Clinical History of Imported Malaria
title_sort prevalence and level of antibodies anti-plasmodium spp. in travellers with clinical history of imported malaria
topic Clinical Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649280/
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