Fecal occult blood and fecal calprotectin as point-of-care markers of intestinal morbidity in Ugandan children with Schistosoma mansoni infection.

• Main Authors: Amaya L Bustinduy (Author), José C Sousa-Figueiredo (Author), Moses Adriko (Author), Martha Betson (Author), Alan Fenwick (Author), Narcis Kabatereine (Author), J Russell Stothard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Calprotectin is a calcium-binding cytoplasmic protein found in neutrophils and increasingly used as a marker of bowel inflammation. Fecal occult blood (FOB) is also a dependable indicator of bowel morbidity. The objective of our study was to determine the applicability of these tests as surrogate ma...