Open AccessDecreasing trend of seroprevalence of hepatic amoebiasis in tertiary care hospital of North India: 2010–2015
Author(s) -
Sachin Agrawal,
Nishant Verma,
Sowjanya Perumalla,
Bijay Ranjan Mirdha
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of laboratory physicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0974-7826
pISSN - 0974-2727
DOI - 10.4103/jlp.jlp_91_17
Subject(s) - seroprevalence , tertiary care , amoebiasis , medicine , traditional medicine , socioeconomics , geography , immunology , economics , serology , antibody
Globally, amoebic liver abscess, a common extraintestinal complication of intestinal amoebiasis. Diagnosis of hepatic amoebiasis is based on the detection of anti- Entamoeba histolytica immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), because of its technique's relatively higher sensitivity and specificity (90%).