ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2019
Loa loa Microfilariae in Skin Snips: Consequences for Onchocerciasis Monitoring and Evaluation in L. loa-Endemic Areas.
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- Improved Nucleic Acid Amplification Test for the Diagnosis of Onchocerciasis and Its Use for Detection of Circulating Cell-free DNA.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Filarial disease in the Brazilian Amazon and emerging opportunities for treatment and control.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Review
- A Novel, Highly Sensitive Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Assay for the Diagnosis of Loiasis and its Use for Detection of Circulating Cell-Free DNA.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Onchocerciasis: Target product profiles of in vitro diagnostics to support onchocerciasis elimination mapping and mass drug administration stopping decisions.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Unusual Localization of Blood-Borne Loa loa Microfilariae in the Skin Depends on Microfilarial Density in the Blood: Implications for Onchocerciasis Diagnosis in Coendemic Areas.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
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- Genomic Epidemiology in Filarial Nematodes: Transforming the Basis for Elimination Program Decisions.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
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Abstract
The specificity of skin snips for onchocerciasis diagnoses is considered to be almost 100%. Our molecular methods revealed that microfilariae emerging from skin snips collected from highly microfilaremic Loa loa-infected individuals were largely misidentified as Onchocerca volvulus. This has important implications for onchocerciasis diagnostic testing in Loa-endemic areas.
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