دورية أكاديمية
Infection with versus exposure to Taenia solium: what do serological test results tell us?
| العنوان: | Infection with versus exposure to Taenia solium: what do serological test results tell us? |
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| المؤلفون: | Praet, Nicolas, Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Richar, Speybroeck, Niko, Ahounou, Serge, Benitez-Ortiz, Washington, Berkvens, Dirk, Hul, Anke Van, Barrionuevo-Samaniego, Margoth, Saegerman, Claude, Dorny, Pierre |
| المصدر: | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83 (2), 413-5 (2010) |
| بيانات النشر: | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Animals, Antibodies, Helminth/blood, Bayes Theorem, Cysticercosis/blood/diagnosis/immunology/parasitology, Ecuador, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Humans, Sensitivity and Specificity, Serologic Tests, Taenia solium/immunology, Life sciences, Veterinary medicine & animal health, Sciences du vivant, Médecine vétérinaire & santé animale |
| الوصف: | Taenia solium cysticercosis is an endemic zoonosis in many developing countries. Serological tests are the most appropriate diagnostic tools to understand the transmission dynamics of the parasite, but the performances of these methods in such a setting are not known. A south Ecuadorian human population living in an endemic area was tested using three common serological tests. Because none of them is a gold standard, a Bayesian Latent Class analysis was used to estimate the test characteristics. Two definitions of a case were considered to differentiate between prevalence of current infection and prior exposure to the parasite. Differences between the performances of the same test in function of the definition of a case were observed. This study shows that test results and prior information should be interpreted carefully in a Bayesian analysis framework, particularly when the latter is based on clinical studies. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 article peer reviewed |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | urn:issn:0002-9637; urn:issn:1476-1645 |
| DOI: | 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0121 |
| URL الوصول: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/132507 |
| حقوق: | open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsorb.132507 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ORBi |
| DOI: | 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0121 |
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