No serological evidence for Zika virus infection and low specificity for anti-Zika virus ELISA in malaria positive individuals among pregnant women from Madagascar in 2010.

No serological evidence for Zika virus infection and low specificity for anti-Zika virus ELISA in malaria positive individuals among pregnant women from Madagascar in 2010.

It was previously reported that a malaria infection may interfere with the specificity of a commercial ELISA test against Zika virus (ZIKV). We analyzed 1,216 plasma samples from healthy, pregnant women collected in two sites in Madagascar in 2010 for ZIKV antibodies using a commercial ELISA and for...

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Main Authors: Norbert Georg Schwarz, Eva Mertens, Doris Winter, Oumou Maiga-Ascofaré, Denise Dekker, Stephanie Jansen, Dennis Tappe, Njary Randriamampionona, Jürgen May, Raphael Rakotozandrindrainy, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5433683?pdf=render

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