Community Laboratory Testing for Cryptosporidium: Multicenter Study Retesting Public Health Surveillance Stool Samples Positive for Cryptosporidium by Rapid Cartridge Assay with Direct Fluorescent Antibody Testing.

Cryptosporidium is a common cause of sporadic diarrheal disease and outbreaks in the United States. Increasingly, immunochromatography-based rapid cartridge assays (RCAs) are providing community laboratories with a quick cryptosporidiosis diagnostic method. In the current study, the Centers for Dise...

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Main Authors: Dawn M Roellig, Jonathan S Yoder, Susan Madison-Antenucci, Trisha J Robinson, Tam T Van, Sarah A Collier, Dave Boxrud, Timothy Monson, Leigh Ann Bates, Anna J Blackstock, Shari Shea, Kirsten Larson, Lihua Xiao, Michael Beach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5234809?pdf=render