Longitudinal monitoring of the development of antifilarial antibodies and acquisition of Wuchereria bancrofti in a highly endemic area of Haiti.

• Main Authors: Katy L Hamlin (Author), Delynn M Moss (Author), Jeffrey W Priest (Author), Jacquelin Roberts (Author), Joseph Kubofcik (Author), Katherine Gass (Author), Thomas G Streit (Author), Thomas B Nutman (Author), Mark L Eberhard (Author), Patrick J Lammie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antifilarial antibody testing has been established as a sensitive and specific method of diagnosing lymphatic filariasis. However, the development of serological responses to specific filarial antigens and their relationship to acquisition of infection is poorly understood. In order to evaluate whet...