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Provedor de dados: 	55	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Performance of an immunoenzymatic assay for Cryptosporidium diagnosis of fecal samples	
Autores: 	Marques,Fabiana Rangel; Cardoso,Luciana Ventura; Cavasini,Carlos Eugênio; Almeida,Magali Carmem de; Bassi,Nair Aparecida; Almeida,Margarete Teresa Gottardo de; Rossit,Andréa Regina Baptista; Machado,Ricardo Luiz Dantas.	
Data: 	2005-02-01	
Ano: 	2005	
Palavras-chave: 	Parasites; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Cryptosporidium diagnosis; Brazil.	
Resumo: 	We evaluated the diagnostic performance of a Cryptosporidium immunoenzymatic assay (ELISA). Fecal samples were collected from 94 HIV-seropositive patients. All specimens were processed with a commercially-available ELISA to detect C. parvum specific coproantigen and with a modified Ziehl-Neelsen stain (ZNm) microscope exam. Overall, sensitivity of the immunoenzymatic test was 100%, with a specificity of 96%; positive and negative predictive values were 89% and 100%, respectively. The commercial ELISA and ZNm proved to be valuable diagnostic tools for Cryptosporidium infection.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/other	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702005000100002	
Editor: 	Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1413-86702005000100002	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.9 n.1 2005	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess