作者
Afona Chernet, Kerstin Kling, Véronique Sydow, Esther Kuenzli, Christoph Hatz, Jürg Utzinger, Lisette van Lieshout, Hanspeter Marti, Beatrice Nickel, Niklaus D Labhardt, Andreas Neumayr
发表日期
2017/8/15
期刊
Clinical Infectious Diseases
卷号
65
期号
4
页码范围
568-574
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
The unprecedented increase in number of African refugees arriving in Europe is confronting clinicians and general practitioners with the question of whether or not and how to screen migrants from endemic regions for Schistosoma mansoni infection.
Methods
We assessed the accuracy of 3 different diagnostic tests for S. mansoni infection (stool microscopy [samples prepared by sedimentation technique], serology, and point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen [POC-CCA] urine cassette test) in 107 newly arrived asymptomatic Eritrean refugees in Switzerland.
Result
Sixty-three study participants (59%) tested positive by at least 1 of the 3 methods. Thirty-seven participants (35%) were considered to have active schistosomiasis, either due to the detection of parasite eggs in stool and/or the presence of a concordant positive serology and urine …
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