Performance of the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) urine cassette test for follow-up after treatment of S. mansoni infection in Eritrean refugees

Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) urine cassette testing has become a popular approach to screen for Schistosoma infection. Since the test is also increasingly used for following-up of treatment success, we assessed the assay's diagnostic accuracy after praziquantel treatment of S. mansoni infection among Eritrean refugees in Switzerland.

Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - September 17, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Andreas Neumayr, Afona Chernet, V éronique Sydow, Kerstin Kling, Esther Kuenzli, Hanspeter Marti, Daniel H. Paris, Beatrice Nickel, Niklaus D. Labhardt Source Type: research