%0 Journal Article
%T Preliminary observations on fluids incubated with Wuchereria bancrofti using the immunochromatographic test
%A Dreyer
%A Gerusa
%A Nor£¿es
%A Joaquim
%A Lanfredi
%A Reinalda
%A Lins
%A Renato
%A Oliveira-Menezes
%A Aleksandra
%A Figueredo-Silva
%A Jos¨¦
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2008
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822008000200017
%X to assess the performance of the immunochromatographic test for filariasis, adult wuchereria bancrofti worms were incubated under different conditions. the tests were strongly positive with incubation fluids from both living and mechanically damaged females. negative results were observed with incubation fluids from all male worms and from intact dead females.
%K wuchereria bancrofti
%K adult worm
%K immunochromatographic filariasis test
%K antigen
%K immunodiagnosis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822008000200017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en