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How can schistosome circulating antigen assays be best applied for diagnosing male genital schistosomiasis (MGS): an appraisal using exemplar MGS cases from a longitudinal cohort study among fishermen on the south shoreline of Lake Malawi

We provide an update on diagnostic methods for the detection of urogenital schistosomiasis (UGS) in men and highlight that satisfactory urine-antigen diagnostics for UGS lag much behind that for intestinal schistosomiasis, where application of a urine-based point-of-care strip assay, the circulating...

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Autores principales: Kayuni, S. A., Corstjens, P. L. A. M., LaCourse, E. J., Bartlett, K. E., Fawcett, J., Shaw, A., Makaula, P., Lampiao, F., Juziwelo, L., de Dood, C. J., Hoekstra, P. T., Verweij, J. J., Leutscher, P. D. C., van Dam, G. J., van Lieshout, L., Stothard, J. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182019000969