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Elisa test in diagnosis of kala-azar in current epidemic in Bihar.

L. Srivastava, +2 more
- 01 Jan 1979 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 4, pp 183-187
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This article is published in The Journal of communicable diseases.The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Visceral leishmaniasis & Leishmaniasis.

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Serological diagnosis of leishmaniasis: on detecting infection as well as disease.

TL;DR: Investigating the performance of one serological method, the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT), in detecting Leishmania infantum infection during an intensive 2-year cohort study of dogs in southern France shows that sensitivity and specificity with respect to infection can be simultaneously high, but maximum sensitivity is probably <80%, and lasts for a relatively short period of 2–3 months after a lengthy incubation period.
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Evaluation of a newly developed direct agglutination test (DAT) for serodiagnosis and sero-epidemiological studies of visceral leishmaniasis: comparison with IFAT and ELISA

TL;DR: A newly developed direct agglutination test (DAT) for visceral leishmaniasis, IFAT and ELISA were applied to sera of patients with visceral leisiasis, African and American trypanosomiasis, other parasitic infections and healthy controls and it is recommended for sero-epidemiological field work on visceral leishingmaniasis.
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Evaluation of a visually read ELISA for serodiagnosis and sero-epidemiological studies of kala-azar in the Baringo District, Kenya

TL;DR: ELISA has been shown to be a convenient and reliable method for the serodiagnosis of East African kala-azar and can be integrated into the routine work of a clinical laboratory at the level of a district hospital, without sophisticated equipment and with a minimum of funds.
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Visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. III. The magnitude and annual incidence of infection, as measured by serology in an endemic area.

TL;DR: A serological study of visceral leishmaniasis was carried out in a cohort of people in an endemic area of Ethiopia, and males showed higher rates than females, with a male:female ratio of seroconversion of 2:1.