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EFFICACY EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSIS OF DIROFILARIA
REPENS INFECTION IN HUMANS USING THE D. REPENS SOMATIC ANTIGEN
Beskrovnaya Yu.G., Nagorny S.A., Vaserin Yu.I.
Rostov Scientific Research Institute of Medical Parasitology.
Summary.
One suggested ELISA using the purified D. repens somatic antigen for diagnosis of D. repens infection in humans. The sensitivity and specificity values appeared to be 80,5±5,9 and 88,5±5,9% respectively.
© 2015 The Author(s). Published by All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Parasitology of Animals and Plants named after K.I. Skryabin.
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