Reliability of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen assay for diagnosing schistosomiasis mansoni in urine samples from an endemic area of Brazil after one year of storage at -20 degrees Celsius.
Tereza Cristina FavreLilian Christina Nóbrega Holsbach BeckFernando Schemelzer de Moares BezerraCarlos Graeff-TeixeiraPaulo Marcos Zech CoelhoMartin Johannes EnkNaftale KatzRicardo Riccio OliveiraMitermayer Galvão Dos ReisOtavio Sarmento PieriPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2022)
The precision and accuracy of POC-ECO have to be optimized in both freshly collected and stored urine before it can be recommended for use in control programs in Brazil.