Enzyme immunoassay for detection of antigen in acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria
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B Fortier1, P Delplace, J F Dubremetz
1Unité 42 INSERM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
A monoclonal antibody specific for an epitope of a 50 kDa Plasmodium falciparum antigen was used in an enzyme immunoassay for detection of the corresponding exo-antigen in culture supernatant and in the sera of 31 patients suffering from acute malaria. The assay was specific for Plasmodium falciparum and did not appear to be strain restricted. A parasitaemia level below 0.001% could be detected.