Review Article
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 | 95.71 | HF collected from cysts of different hosts or of different anatomical locations from the same host |
[18] | 93.62 | 91.43 | 97.84 | 93.65 | 78.56 | 72.27 |
| 63 | Surgery | 90.5 | Not specified |
[48] | 82.4 |
| 68 | Imaging techniques | 92.6 | Lung cysts | [13] |
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Commercial test; HF of cysts from 1sheep liver, 2sheep lungs, 3goat liver, 4human liver, 5camel lungs, 6cow lungs, and 7cocktail.
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