Is POC-CCA a truly reliable test for schistosomiasis diagnosis in low endemic areas? The trace results controversy

Evaluating a point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen test (POC-CCA) to detect Schistosoma mansoni infections in a low endemic area in north-eastern Brazil

(2018) Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Infectious pathogens meet point-of-care diagnostics

(2018) Mohammad Zarei   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Comparing the performance of circulating cathodic antigen and Kato-Katz techniques in evaluating Schistosoma mansoni infection in areas with low prevalence in selected counties of Kenya: a cross-sectional study

(2018) Collins Okoyo et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Understanding the relationship between egg- and antigen-based diagnostics of Schistosoma mansoni infection pre- and post-treatment in Uganda

(2018) Joaquín M. Prada et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Latent class analysis to evaluate performance of point-of-care CCA for low-intensity Schistosoma mansoni infections in Burundi

(2018) Michelle N. Clements et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Innovative methodology for point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen with rapid urine concentration for use in the field for detecting low Schistosoma mansoni infection and for control of cure with high accuracy

(2018) Rafaella F Q Grenfell et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Evaluation of diagnostic methods for the detection of intestinal schistosomiasis in endemic areas with low parasite loads: Saline gradient, Helmintex, Kato-Katz and rapid urine test

(2018) Warllem Junio Oliveira et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Schistosomiasis is more prevalent than previously thought: what does it mean for public health goals, policies, strategies, guidelines and intervention programs?

(2017) Daniel G. Colley et al.   Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Field evaluation of a schistosome circulating cathodic antigen rapid test kit at point-of-care for mapping of schistosomiasis endemic districts in The Gambia

(2017) Bakary Sanneh et al.   PLoS One

Accuracy of point-of-care testing for circulatory cathodic antigen in the detection of schistosome infection: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Anthony Danso-Appiah et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Improvement of POC-CCA Interpretation by Using Lyophilization of Urine from Patients with Schistosoma mansoni Low Worm Burden: Towards an Elimination of Doubts about the Concept of Trace

(2016) Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Application in Europe of a urine-based rapid diagnostic test for confirmation of Schistosoma mansoni infection in migrants from endemic areas

(2015) S Becker et al.   Eurosurveillance

A Five-Country Evaluation of a Point-of-Care Circulating Cathodic Antigen Urine Assay for the Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni

(2013) Daniel G. Colley et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Evaluation of urine-circulating cathodic antigen (Urine-CCA) cassette test for the detection ofSchistosoma mansoniinfection in areas of moderate prevalence in Ethiopia

(2013) Berhanu Erko et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Accuracy of Urine Circulating Cathodic Antigen Test for the Diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni in Preschool-Aged Children before and after Treatment

(2013) Jean T. Coulibaly et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Accuracy of circulating cathodic antigen tests for rapid mapping ofSchistosoma mansoniandS. haematobiuminfections in Southern Sudan

(2011) Ruth A. Ashton et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Application of a circulating-cathodic-antigen (CCA) strip test and real-time PCR, in comparison with microscopy, for the detection ofSchistosoma haematobiumin urine samples from Ghana

(2008) B.B. Obeng et al.   ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY