Serological Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Human Cystic Echinococcosis: A New Hope for the Future?

Table 1

Performance of the hydatid cyst fluid in ELISA test for the detection of total IgG in CE patients (articles published from 2006).

Number of CE patients	Confirmatory test	Sensitivity (%)	Negative serology more frequent when	Reference
23	Histopathology	100	Not specified	[40]
5	Imaging techniques plus serology	80	Not specified
13	Serology	100	Not specified
41	Surgery	95.1	Not specified	[21]
6	Imaging techniques	66.7	Cyst location other than liver	[12]
144	Imaging techniques	92.4	CE1, CE4, and CE5 cyst stages	[14]
123	Imaging techniques	64.8	CE4 and CE5 cyst stages, no pretreatment	[15]
59	Surgery	95.1	Not specified	[20]
10	Surgery	100	Not specified	[52]
54	Surgery	81.5	Single cyst, no pretreatment	[17]
186	Surgery	83.3
32	Imaging techniques	93.8	CE4 and CE5 cyst stages	[16]
155	Surgery	90.3	Not specified	[29]
40	Surgery	92.5	Not specified	[30]
47	Surgery	95.7^1	HF collected from cysts of different hosts or of different anatomical locations from the same host	[18]
		93.6^2
		91.4^3
		97.8^4
		93.6^5
		78.5^6
		72.2^7
63	Surgery	90.5	Not specified	[48]
		82.4
68	Imaging techniques	92.6	Lung cysts	[13]

Commercial test; HF of cysts from ¹sheep liver, ²sheep lungs, ³goat liver, ⁴human liver, ⁵camel lungs, ⁶cow lungs, and ⁷cocktail.