Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate

An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively.

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Autores principales: Al-Mounase, MST, Mustafa, FA, Kateh, AG
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25003039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2012.2.11
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spelling pubmed-39910462014-07-07 Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate Al-Mounase, MST Mustafa, FA Kateh, AG Qatar Med J Original Study An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2013-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3991046/ /pubmed/25003039 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2012.2.11 Text en © 2012 Al Mounase, Mustafa, Kateh, licensee Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title_full Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title_fullStr Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title_full_unstemmed Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title_short Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate
title_sort seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in basrah governorate
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25003039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2012.2.11
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