TY - GEN AU - Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes AU - Almeida, Tatiana Amaral Pires AU - Silva, Lucyane Bastos Tavares AU - Rubio Muñoz, Jose Miguel AU - Crainey, James Lee AU - Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa AU - Luz, Sérgio Luiz Bessa PY - 2015 DO - 10.1186/s13071-015-0889-z UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/4853 AB - BACKGROUND: Mansonella ozzardi is a poorly understood human filarial parasite with a broad distribution throughout Latin America. Most of what is known about its parasitism has come from epidemiological studies that have estimated parasite incidence... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Mansonelliasis KW - Mansonella ozzardi KW - PCR-detection KW - Submicroscopic KW - FTA®cards TI - A field trial of a PCR-based Mansonella ozzardi diagnosis assay detects high-levels of submicroscopic M. ozzardi infections in both venous blood samples and FTA® card dried blood spots TY - research article ER -