Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar: Epidemiology and comparison of diagnostic methods in a setting of nonendemicity

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1315-1318

  Pillai, Dylan R ^a   Keystone, Jay S ^a   Sheppard, Donald C ^c   MacLean, J Dick ^c   MacPherson, Douglas W ^b   Kain, Kevin C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033496703     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313433     Document Type: Article

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