Longitudinal monitoring of the development of antifilarial antibodies and acquisition of Wuchereria bancrofti in a highly endemic area of Haiti.

Antifilarial antibody testing has been established as a sensitive and specific method of diagnosing lymphatic filariasis. However, the development of serological responses to specific filarial antigens and their relationship to acquisition of infection is poorly understood. In order to evaluate whet...

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Main Authors: Katy L Hamlin, Delynn M Moss, Jeffrey W Priest, Jacquelin Roberts, Joseph Kubofcik, Katherine Gass, Thomas G Streit, Thomas B Nutman, Mark L Eberhard, Patrick J Lammie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3516578?pdf=render