ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018
Comparison of PCR Methods for
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Beyond Tradition: Exploring Cutting-Edge Approaches for Accurate Diagnosis of Human Filariasis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Relationship between skin snip and Ov16 ELISA: Two diagnostic tools for onchocerciasis in a focus in Cameroon after two decades of ivermectin-based preventive chemotherapy.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Tandem Use of OvMANE1 and Ov-16 ELISA Tests Increases the Sensitivity for the Diagnosis of Human Onchocerciasis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sensitive universal detection of blood parasites by selective pathogen-DNA enrichment and deep amplicon sequencing.Microbiome · 2021Article
- Zoonotic Implications ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- NTD Diagnostics for Disease Elimination: A Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Recent advances in nucleic acid-based methods for detection of helminth infections and the perspective of biosensors for future development.Parasitology · 2020Review
- Onchocerciasis Elimination: Progress and Challenges.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2020Review
- Loa loa Microfilariae in Skin Snips: Consequences for Onchocerciasis Monitoring and Evaluation in L. loa-Endemic Areas.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
- Elimination of onchocerciasis in Africa by 2025: the need for a broad perspective.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2019Article
- The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2019Article
- Onchodermatitis: Where Are We Now?Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018Review
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Abstract
Defining the optimal diagnostic tools for evaluating onchocerciasis elimination efforts in areas co-endemic for other filarial nematodes is imperative. This study compared three published polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods: the
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