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Multicenter Study
. 2011 Apr;49(4):1605-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02074-10. Epub 2011 Feb 2.

Evaluation of four commercial rapid immunochromatographic assays for detection of Cryptosporidium antigens in stool samples: a blind multicenter trial

Patrice Agnamey  1 , Claudine Sarfati, Claudine Pinel, Meja Rabodoniriina, Nathalie Kapel, Emmanuel Dutoit, Cécile Garnaud, Momar Diouf, Jean-François Garin, Anne Totet, F Derouin; ANOFEL Cryptosporidium National Network
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Multicenter Study

Evaluation of four commercial rapid immunochromatographic assays for detection of Cryptosporidium antigens in stool samples: a blind multicenter trial

Patrice Agnamey et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Apr.

Abstract

In a multicenter study, potassium dichromate-preserved stools from patients infected with Cryptosporidium parvum (n = 20), C. hominis (n = 20), and other Cryptosporidium species (n = 10) and 60 controls were examined using four immunochromatographic assays. Assay sensitivity ranged between 50.1% and 86.7% for C. parvum and C. hominis but was <35% for other species.

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