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HIV Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Background There are an estimated 2482 people born in Latin American countries receiving care for HIV in the United Kingdom. Although national guidance recommends screening for Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas disease) in this population, there is no formal screening programme.
Natalie Elkheir +18 more
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Antibodies, 2019 Anti-Leishmania antibodies may be detectable in patients with leishmaniasis. Here, we compared a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of anti-Leishmania antibodies, with an immunofluorescence antibody test (IFAT) that is
Christen Rune Stensvold +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2022 Diagnosis of anaplasmosis is challenging considering the great variation in clinical signs and the limitations of the available diagnostic assays, while the detection of carrier animals that play a significant role in disease epidemiology as reservoirs ...
Labrini V. Athanasiou +4 more
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Leishmania infection and host-blood feeding preferences of phlebotomine sandflies and canine leishmaniasis in an endemic European area, the Algarve Region in Portugal [PDF]
, 2013 The Algarve Region (AR) in southern Portugal, which is an international tourist destination, has been considered an endemic region of zoonotic leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum since the 1980s.
Afonso, Maria Odete +5 more
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Journal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV) is a contagious pathogen associated with significant mortality and economic losses in freshwater aquaculture. Although reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT‐qPCR) enables rapid detection, it does not distinguish between infectious and non‐infectious viral particles, which may lead to overestimation of ...
Ha‐Jeong Son +9 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1996 A direct agglutination test (DAT) and an immunofluorescence technique (IFAT) were compared for detection of Leishmania infantum infection in 43 dogs and five foxes from Alto-Douro and Arrábida, two known endemic areas in Portugal.
SJ Semião-Santos +5 more
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Risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis in a new epidemic site in Amhara Region, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2009 We conducted a case-control study to evaluate risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis during an epidemic in a previously unaffected district of Ethiopia. We also collected blood and bone marrow specimens from dogs in the outbreak villages.
Alvar, Jorge +11 more
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A longitudinal study of natural infection of piglets with Streptococcus suis types 1 and 2 [PDF]
, 1991 Streptococcus suis types 1 and 2 were detected in nasal swabs taken from five litters of piglets sampled twice weekly from birth. The two types had been detected in all pigs by the time they were 38 and 25 days old respectively with mean ages of first ...
Robertson, I.D. +3 more
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Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2003 Sera of 521 dairy cows from herds in Avaré County, SP were examined by indirect fluorescent-antibody test (IFAT) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of antibodies to Neospora caninum.
Aurea Maria Oliveira Canavessi +3 more
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Towards a TCT-inspired electronics concept inventory [PDF]
, 2014 This study reports on the initial work on the use of Threshold Concept Theory (TCT) to develop a threshold-concept inventory – a catalogue of the important concepts that underlie electronics and electrical engineering (EE) – and an assessment tool – to ...
Harlow, Ann +2 more
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