Evaluation of sevafilachek immunoassays and rapid ICT-filariasis test for detection of bancroftian filariasis

Autor: Bhaskar C Harinath, Sandeep Kulkarni, M. V. R. Reddy, R. Alli
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry. 16:207-210
ISSN: 0974-0422
0970-1915
DOI: 10.1007/bf02864863
Popis: A comparative analysis was made on the utility of SEVAFILACHEK-stick based immunoassays and commercially available ICT-filariasis test to detect active infection in different groups of bancroftian filariasis. The SEVAFILACHEK immunoassays were found to be useful to detect filarial infection in microfilaraemia and in a significant number of clinical filarial cases with acute, chronic and occult clinical manifestations. In the clinical cases, microfilariae are not usually detected in peripheral circulation. Employing SEVAFILACHEK assays 6 and 5 of the 7 samples of patients with chronic filarial disease, and 6 and 5 of 6 microfilaraemic cases gave positivity for filarial IgG antibodies and antigen respectively. Four of the 6 occult filarial samples were positive for antibodies and antigen. Filarial antigen was detected by ICT-filariasis test in blood samples of all the 6 microfilariaemic cases, 1 chronic filarial and 2 occult filarial samples. The main advantage of ICT assay is its rapid format and convenience for field use.
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