Unusual Localization of Blood-Borne Loa loa Microfilariae in the Skin Depends on Microfilarial Density in the Blood: Implications for Onchocerciasis Diagnosis in Coendemic Areas.
Yannick Niamsi-EmalioHugues C Nana-DjeungaCédric B ChesnaisSébastien D S PionJules B Tchatchueng-MbouguaMichel BoussinesqMaría-Gloria BasáñezJoseph KamgnoPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
The probability of finding L. loa mf by SST increases significantly with Loa MFD. Skin-snip polymerase chain reaction would be useful when monitoring onchocerciasis prevalence by SST in onchocerciasis-loiasis coendemic areas.
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