ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2015
Rapid Tests and the Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coinfection.
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- The Global Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Parasitic Coinfection in People Living with Viruses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- The diagnostic accuracy of direct agglutination test for serodiagnosis of human visceral leishmaniasis: a systematic review with meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Antigen Detection in Urine for Noninvasive Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfected Patients: An Exploratory Analysis from Ethiopia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2018Trial
- Screening for visceral leishmaniasis in humans and animals in Laos.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Diagnosis and Causative Species of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Southwest Saudi Arabia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Leishmaniasis in the United States: Emerging Issues in a Region of Low Endemicity.Microorganisms · 2021Review
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- Frequency of Leishmania spp. infection among HIV-infected patients living in an urban area in Brazil: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis: Current and Future Methods.Microorganisms · 2020Review
- Leishmaniasis diagnosis: an update on the use of parasitological, immunological and molecular methods.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2020Review
- SLC11A1 (rs3731865) polymorphism and susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-coinfected patients from Northeastern Brazil.Parasitology research · 2020Article
- A rapid diagnostic test for human Visceral Leishmaniasis using novelEmerging microbes & infections · 2019Article
- Validation of rK39 immunochromatographic test and direct agglutination test for the diagnosis of Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis in Spain.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Performance of two immunochromatographic tests for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in patients coinfected with HIV.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection: current perspectives.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Review
- Characterization of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in visceral leishmaniasis associated with hiv co-infection in Northeastern Brazil.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2017Article
- Leishmaniasis-HIV coinfection: current challenges.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Review
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Abstract
After the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the number of visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-HIV/AIDS coinfections has increased worldwide. Herein, we assessed the usefulness of an rK39-based immunochromatographic test (rK39 ICT) (DiaMed-IT LEISH(®); DiaMed AG, Cressier-sur-Morat, Switzerland) and a latex agglutination test (KAtex; Kalon Biological, Guildford, United Kingdom) for urinary antigen detection to diagnose VL in 15 HIV/AIDS patients from northeastern Brazil. VL diagnosis was based on clinical findings, cytology, serology, parasite DNA, and/or urinary antigen detection. VL was confirmed in seven out of 15 HIV/AIDS patients. Only three patients were positive in bone marrow cytology, three patients were conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive, while six were real-time PCR positive. All patients were direct agglutination test (DAT) (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) positive; of these, four were positive by rK39 ICT and five by KAtex. Large-scale studies are needed to validate the use of the KAtex in the national public health laboratory network in Brazil, aiming at improving the diagnosis of VL in HIV/AIDS patients in this country.
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