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ArticleTropical parasitology2014

Molecular and serological rapid tests as markers of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs in Costa Rica.

Regina Lizundia, Albert Picado, Marlen Cordero, Alejandra Calderón, Stijn Deborggraeve, Victor M Montenegro, Andrea Urbina

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Article in Tropical parasitology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. PCR monitoring of parasitemia during drug treatment for canine Chagas disease.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Regina LizundiaDepartment of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, United Kingdom.
Albert PicadoDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium ; Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clínic Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
Marlen CorderoFaculty of Microbiology, Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases (CIET), University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Alejandra CalderónSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Stijn DeborggraeveDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Victor M MontenegroSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Andrea UrbinaSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Universidad Nacional · CRInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BERoyal Veterinary College · GBUniversidad de Costa Rica · CRUniversitat de Barcelona · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionChagas disease is a zoonotic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and dogs are one of the main domestic reservoirs. MATERIALS AND

methodsOne molecular (OligoC-TesT, Coris Bioconcept) and one serological (T. cruzi-Detect, Inbios) rapid tests were evaluated as infection markers for T. cruzi in 102 dogs living in eight villages endemic for Chagas in Costa Rica.

resultsT. cruzi-Detect performed well as screening tool with 23.3% positive samples. The large number of invalid results (66.7%) observed in samples tested with OligoC-TesT precluded assessing the use of this new method as epidemiological tool to detect T. cruzi infection in dogs.

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Asymptomatic infectionsChagasCosta Ricadiagnostic toolsOligoC-TesTrapid testT. cruzi-DetectTrypanosoma cruzi

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