Publications by authors named "Katherine Fernandez-Quesada"
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a potentially fatal zoonotic disease with a broad geographical distribution throughout Central and South America. This study assessed the performance of Angiostrongylus costaricensis eggs as the antigen in an indirect immunofluorescence assay for the determination of parasite-specific IgG and IgG1 antibodies. For prevalence studies, an IgG antibody titre ≥ 16 was identified as the diagnostic threshold with the best performance, providing 93.
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