Seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the rural population of Miraflores, Monagas State, Venezuela. Stability and reactivity differences of fixed epimastigotes.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The seroprevalence of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi IgG was evaluated in the rural population of Miraflores, Monagas State. The study included 106 individuals (ages: 4 to 79 years) of any sex. The serologic diagnosis was done through the ELISA test using as antigen fixed T. cruzi epimastigote forms. The stability of the antigen used was evaluated, as well as the differences in reactivity of the two different T. cruzi strains used (the Tulahuen-Brasil complex, and the RG1 strains). Seropositivity of anti-T. cruzi IgG type antibodies with the RG1 strains and the mixture of Tulahuen-Brasil strains was 2.8%. There was a positive relationship between the age of patients and the optical density of the anti-T. cruzi IgG type antibody determination shown by the ELISA test for both strains. The Tulahuen-Brasil strains showed greater reactivity than the one seen with the RG1 strain. Fixed antigens (mixture of Tulahuen-Brasil strains) maintained their stability and reactivity during a five-year period, which means that this antigen is an excellent candidate for diagnostic tests. The epidemiological risk variables for the reactivation of this infection were present in this region of Venezuela.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".