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SUBMITTER: Clements MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2861389 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clements Meredith F MF Gidwani Kamlesh K Kumar Rajiv R Hostomska Jitka J Dinesh Diwakar S DS Kumar Vijay V Das Pradeep P Müller Ingrid I Hamilton Gordon G Volfova Vera V Boelaert Marleen M Das Murari M Rijal Suman S Picado Albert A Volf Petr P Sundar Shyam S Davies Clive R CR Rogers Matthew E ME
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20100501 5
Antibody (IgG) responses to the saliva of Phlebotomus argentipes were investigated using serum samples from regions of India endemic and non-endemic for visceral leishmaniasis (VL). By pre-adsorbing the sera against the saliva of the competing human-biting but non-VL vector P. papatasi, we significantly improved the specificity of a P. argentipes saliva enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Using this method, we observed a statistically significant correlation between antibodies to P. argenitpes sa ...[more]