Evaluation of six commercial kits for the serological diagnosis of Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis

An interregional network meeting on the control of cutaneous leishmaniasis in selected countries of the African Region and the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World

ABSTRACT This study estimated the sensitivity and specificity of the rK39 strip test compared with the immunofluorescent antibody test and microscopy of bone marrow aspirate

This study compared two commercial ELISA kits widely used in Europe to detect antibodies against M. agalac- tiae, the primary agent of CA. Kits were tested on a large number of

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is an infection transmitted by sand flies and caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania. An estimated 500 000 people

Diagnostic performance of the novel Aspergillus genus-specific ELISA (A) and the immunoblot testing (Aspergillus Western blot IgG R kit, LDBio Diagnostics, Lyon, France) (B) in

ePrep members (be they coordinator of the CoP, “thematic referents”, or simple members) participated in the validation process together with the PALETTE Team (i.e. the CoP’s

Each test gave inconclusive results for 6 of the 199 samples: with the Euroimmun test, we obtained 6 inconclusive results from the 90 samples from the Zika virus subgroup, and

Evaluation of 4 commercialized kits used in the molecular diagnosis of whooping cough using real