Low specificity of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POCCCA) diagnostic test in a non-endemic area for schistosomiasis mansoni in Brazil.

Autor: Graeff-Teixeira C; Infectious Diseases Unit (NDI), Center for Health Sciences, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Favero V; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Pascoal VF; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., de Souza RP; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: renata.perotto@acad.pucrs.br., Rigo FV; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Agnese LHD; Research Group on Biomedical Parasitology, School of Sciences, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Bezerra FSM; Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil., Coelho PMZ; René Rachou Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: paulo.zech@fiocruz.br., Enk MJ; Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, PA, Brazil., Favre TC; Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: tfavre@ioc.fiocruz.br., Katz N; René Rachou Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Oliveira RR; Gonçalo Muniz Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, BA, Brazil., Dos Reis MG; Gonçalo Muniz Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, BA, Brazil; Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil; Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America. Electronic address: miter@bahia.fiocruz.br., Pieri OS; Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: otavio.pieri@gmail.com.

Publikováno v: Acta tropica [Acta Trop] 2021 May; Vol. 217, pp. 105863. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 13.