Diagnosis of human schistosomiasis by detection of circulating cathodic antigen with a monoclonal antibody.

Ibrahim S. Barsoum,* Karim A. Kamal, Samir Bassily, Andre M. Deelder, and Daniel G. Colley Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt; Laboratory of Parasitology, Medical Faculty, Leiden University, Netherlands