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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2023

Field-friendly anti-PGL-I serosurvey in children to monitor

Louise Pierneef, Paritosh Malaviya, Anouk van Hooij, Shyam Sundar, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Rajiv Kumar, Danielle de Jong, Maaike Meuldijk, Awnish Kumar, Zijie Zhou and 4 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Louise PierneefDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Paritosh MalaviyaDepartment of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Anouk van HooijDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Shyam SundarDepartment of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Abhishek Kumar SinghDepartment of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Rajiv KumarCentre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Danielle de JongDepartment of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Maaike MeuldijkDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Awnish KumarCentre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Zijie ZhouDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Kristien ClootsDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Paul CorstjensDepartment of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Epco HaskerDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Annemieke GelukDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLInstitute of Medical Sciences · INBanaras Hindu University · INInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BE

Funding

Visceral Leishmaniasis in Bihar State, IndiaP50AI074321 · NIAID · BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY · PI SUNDAR, SHYAM · 2007 to 2016
$6.4M
NIAID NIH HHS P50 AI074321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: It has been amply described that levels of IgM antibodies against Material and methods: A serosurvey for anti-PGL-I IgM antibodies among children in highly leprosy endemic villages in Bihar, India, was performed, applying the quantitative anti-PGL-I UCP-LFA cassette combined with low-invasive, small-volume fingerstick blood (FSB). Results: Local staff obtained FSB of 1,857 children (age 3-11 years) living in 12 leprosy endemic villages in Bihar; of these, 215 children (11.58%) were seropositive for anti-PGL-I IgM. Conclusion: The anti-PGL-I seroprevalence level of 11.58% among children corresponds with the seroprevalence levels described in studies in other leprosy endemic areas over the past decades where no prophylactic interventions have taken place. The anti-PGL-I UCP-LFA was found to be a low-complexity tool that could be practically combined with serosurveys and was well-accepted by both healthcare staff and the population. On route to leprosy elimination, quantitative anti-PGL-I serology in young children holds promise as a strategy to monitor recent

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anti-M. leprae PGL-I antibodieschildrendiagnosticsinfectionleprosyserosurveytransmissionupconversion

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