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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 8, Pages 3003-3007Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02474-09
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- NIH/NSF
- Fogarty International Center
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [R01 TW05836]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica (Argentina)
- University of Buenos Aires
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We evaluated a commercially available immunochromatographic dipstick test to detect Trypanosoma cruzi infection in 366 human serum samples with known serological results from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela. One hundred forty-nine of 366 (40.7%) and 171/366 (46.7%) samples tested positive by dipstick and serology, respectively. Dipstick sensitivity was calculated to be 84.8% (range between countries, 77.5 to 95%), and specificity was 97.9% (95.9 to 100%).
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