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

• Asıl Yazarlar: Amaya L Bustinduy (Yazar), José C Sousa-Figueiredo (Yazar), Moses Adriko (Yazar), Martha Betson (Yazar), Alan Fenwick (Yazar), Narcis Kabatereine (Yazar), J Russell Stothard (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: 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...