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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Identifying Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes by urinary antigen detection (UAD) assay is the most sensitive way to evaluate the epidemiology of nonbacteremic community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We first described a UAD assay to detect the S.
W. Kalina +17 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a parasitic disease caused mainly by the Wuchereria bancrofti worm and that affects up to 120 million people worldwide.
André Filipe Pastor +10 more
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Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2020 Background The screening ofTrypanosoma cruzi-infected blood donors using two serological techniques frequently leads to conflicting results. This fact prompted us to evaluate the diagnostic performance of four “in-house” immunodiagnostic tests and two ...
M. M. Ferreira-Silva +11 more
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Materials & Design, 2023 The natural compound of cinobufagin (CS-1) has showed potential application for colorectal cancer therapy. However, the limitation of hydrophobicity and cardiotoxicity appealed for the improvement of compound formulation. Meanwhile, sole chemotherapy for
Mengjie Luo +7 more
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Detection of antibodies against Leishmania species using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in cats from the western border of Brazil [PDF]
Ciência Rural: Feline leishmaniosis is infrequent worldwide, and cats have been suggested as secondary reservoirs for the parasite. However, specific diagnostic techniques for feline samples are scarce.
Gabriela Döwich Pradella +8 more
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Rapid development of neutralizing and diagnostic SARS-COV-2 mouse monoclonal antibodies
Scientific Reports, 2021 The need for high-affinity, SARS-CoV-2-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is critical in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as such reagents can have important diagnostic, research, and therapeutic applications.
Asheley P. Chapman +21 more
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Experimental parasitology, 2020 Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the main causative agent of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis (EoM) in humans. Molecular diagnostic methods are essential since the identification of larvae in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is extremely rare.
B. B. Cognato +6 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 RationaleTuberculosis diagnosis in children remains challenging. Microbiological confirmation of tuberculosis disease is often lacking, and standard immunodiagnostic including the tuberculin skin test and interferon-γ release assay for tuberculosis ...
Noëmi Rebecca Meier +9 more
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Antibody responses to Sarcoptes scabiei apolipoprotein in a porcine model: relevance to immunodiagnosis of recent infection. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 No commercial immunodiagnostic tests for human scabies are currently available, and existing animal tests are not sufficiently sensitive. The recombinant Sarcoptes scabiei apolipoprotein antigen Sar s 14.3 is a promising immunodiagnostic, eliciting high ...
Melanie Rampton +7 more
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Establishment and validation of an immunodiagnostic model for prediction of breast cancer
Oncoimmunology, 2019 Serum autoantibodies that react with tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) can be used as potential biomarkers for diagnosis of cancer. This study aims to evaluate the immunodiagnostic value of 11 anti-TAAs autoantibodies for detection of breast cancer (BC ...
C. Qiu +9 more
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