caa a22 4500 475831152 CHVBK 20180406123840.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s100960000286 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s100960000286 Evaluation of Four Enzyme Immunoassays for the Detection of Giardia lamblia Antigen in Stool Specimens [Elektronische Daten] [B. Maraha, A. G. M. Buiting]  Four enzyme immunoassays for the detection of Giardia lamblia antigen in stool specimens were evaluated: the ProSpecT Giardia Microplate Assay (Alexon, USA), the Giardia CELISA (Cellabs, Australia), the DSl-Giardia-ELISA (DSL, Germany), and the Melotest Giardiasis Ag (Melotec, Spain). Microscopic examination and enzyme immunoassays were performed on 168 stool specimens collected from 168 patients suspected to have giardiasis. All assays were easy to perform. The ProSpecT Giardia assay had the highest sensitivity of the assays evaluated (91%), and its interpretation was the easiest. The sensitivity of the three other assays ranged from 63 to 81%. The ProSpecT Giardia assay can be useful to detect Giardia lamblia and may replace microscopic examination in areas of high endemicity. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Maraha B. Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 747, 5000 AS Tilburg, The Netherlands e-mail: bmarah@elisabeth.nl, NL aut Buiting A. G. M. Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 747, 5000 AS Tilburg, The Netherlands e-mail: bmarah@elisabeth.nl, NL aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960000286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960000286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maraha B. Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 747, 5000 AS Tilburg, The Netherlands e-mail: bmarah@elisabeth.nl, NL aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buiting A. G. M. Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 747, 5000 AS Tilburg, The Netherlands e-mail: bmarah@elisabeth.nl, NL aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer