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Abstract The study aim to Revaluation of commercial Schisto-Fast test for detection of circulating schistosomal antigens in serum of simple bilharzia! infected patients before and after treatment.A commercially available enzyme immunoassay for the diagnosis of Schistosoma infection was evaluated for the diagnosis of Schistosoma manson. This commercially Schisto-fast” test is compared with antigen assay by indirect ELISAand antibody assays by IHAT and ELISA. A total of 82 serum samples were collected and used to evaluate the test performance fifty samples ofthem were collected from subjects’ attending Zagazig University Hospitals, outpatient clinics of Tropical Medicine Department and from some endemic areas in Sharkia Governorate and these persons were infected by schstosoma mansoni. |