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Volume 2012, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively.

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