Abstract

NUNEZ FERNANDEZ, Fidel; MONTALVO, Ana Margarita; ROJAS RIVERO, Lázara  and  ALBERTI AMADOR, Esteban. ENZYMEBA, procedimiento eficaz para estudiar la prevalencia de infección intestinal por Entamoeba histolytica. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 1998, vol.36, n.2, pp.131-136. ISSN 0253-1751.

Owing to the epidemiological usefulness of the development of methods allowing reliable studies on the prevalence of intestinal amebiasis, this paper studied the effectiveness of ENZYMEBA, inmuno-enzymatic assay to detect Entamoeba histolytica from feces. Through only one feces specimen from every participant in the study, this assay detected E. histolytica infection in 27 out of the 686 cases observed. The results of microscopic feces observation were only comparable to those of ENZYMEBA when the result of both methods were carefully examined in 3 feces specimen taken from each of the subjects participating in it. Because this inmunoassay is highly sensitive, requires only one feces specimen per surveyed person and can be perfomed at a minimal laboratory conditions, ENZYMEBA is considered to be a very useful tool for studying the prevalence of intestinal amebiasis.

Keywords : DYSENTERY AMEBIC [diagnosis]; DYSENTERY AMEBIC [epidemiology]; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA [enzymology]; INMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; FECES.

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