The subgenus Leishmania (Leishmania): a citation correction

✍ Scribed by Ralph Lainson; Jeffrey Jon Shaw

• Book ID: 104165960
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 94
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9203
• DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(00)90290-6

✦ Synopsis

CORRESPONDENCE

diagnosis of malaria, owing to the cross-reaction with rheumatoid factor. Indeed we have no issue with the results reporting cross-reactivity in controlled studies.

However, we feel that the pertinent question is why this does not appear to hold true in field studies? All studies to date have demonstrated specificities no less than 85% (Schiff et al..