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ArticleMicroorganisms2021

Development and Clinical Evaluation of Serum and Urine-Based Lateral Flow Tests for Diagnosis of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis.

Sarfaraz Ahmad Ejazi, Somsubhra Thakur Choudhury, Anirban Bhattacharyya, Mohd Kamran, Krishna Pandey, Vidya Nand Ravi Das, Pradeep Das, Fernando Oliveira da Silva, Dorcas Lamounier Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa and 3 more

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Article in Microorganisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sarfaraz Ahmad EjaziCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
Somsubhra Thakur ChoudhuryCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
Anirban BhattacharyyaCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
Mohd KamranCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
Krishna PandeyRajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna 800007, India.
Vidya Nand Ravi DasRajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna 800007, India.
Pradeep DasRajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna 800007, India.
Fernando Oliveira da SilvaDepartment of Community Medicine, Universidade Federal do Piaui, Teresina 64001-450, Brazil.
Dorcas Lamounier CostaDepartment of Community Medicine, Universidade Federal do Piaui, Teresina 64001-450, Brazil.
Carlos Henrique Nery CostaDepartment of Community Medicine, Universidade Federal do Piaui, Teresina 64001-450, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7302-2006
Mehebubar RahamanSchool of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata 700073, India.
Rama Prosad GoswamiSchool of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata 700073, India.
Nahid AliCSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology · INRajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences · INUniversidade Federal do Piauí · BR

Funding

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India NAGlobal Challenges Research Fund MR/P027989/1Medical Research Council MR/P027989/1Sir J. C. Bose Fellowship, India NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a fatal parasitic infection, is categorized as being neglected among tropical diseases. The use of conventional tissue aspiration for diagnosis is not possible in every setting. The immunochromatography-based lateral flow assay (LFA) has attracted attention for a long time due to its ability to give results within a few minutes, mainly in resource-poor settings. In the present study, we optimized and developed the LFA to detect anti-

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diagnosislateral flow assayLeishmaniaserologyurine

Identifiers

PMID34201902
PMCPMC8305891
OpenAlexW3174914365

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