Comparison of antigen-capture ELISA to stool-culture methods for the detection of asymptomatic Entamoeba species infection in Kafer Daoud, Egypt

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 579-582

  Abd Alla, M D ^a   Wahib, A A ^a   Ravdin, J I ^a  

^a El Hussein University Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EGYPT; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRICHOMONAS;

BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONAS;

EID: 0034467480     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.579     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Problems in diagnosis and recognition of amebiasis: Estimation of global magnitude of morbidity and mortality
2. Search for antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica in Mexico
3. Prevalence and patterns of parasitic infections in rural area around Nagpur
4. The incidence of intestinal parasites among the patients in a tuberculosis hospital near Madras
5. Amebiasis survey in Calcutta (India), Bangkok (Thailand), Medellin (Columbia), and San Jose (Costa Rico)
6. A seroepidemiologic survey in the Gezira, Sudan, with special reference to arbovirses
7. Invasive Amebiasis I. Amebic dysentery and its complications
8. Intestinal disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica
9. New concepts of amebic liver abscess derived from hepatic imaging, serodiagnosis, and hepatic enzymes in 67 consecutive case in San Diego
10. A survey of Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar (Brumpt) infection on Mahe, the Seychelles
11. Frequency distribution of Entamoeba histolytica zymodemes in rural south Africa population
12. Amebic liver abscess and circulating immune complexes of Entamoeba histolytica proteins
13. A solid phase sandwich radioimmunoassay for Entamoeba histolytica proteins and the detection of circulating antigen in amebiasis
14. Humoral and mucosal IgA antibody response to a recombinant 52-kDa cysteine-rich portion of the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin correlates with detection of native 170-kDa antigen in serum of patients with amebic colitis
15. Differentiation of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica infection from nonpathogenic infection by detection of galactose-inhibitable adherence protein antigen in sera and feces
16. Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar infection in children from in Bangladesh
17. The laboratory diagnosis of human parasitic amoeba
18. The reliability of Entamoeba histolytica zymodeme in clinical diagnosis
19. Pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of Entamoeba histolytica can be differentiated by monoclonal antibodies to galactose-specific adherence lectin
20. Probability theory in the use of diagnostic test
21. Use of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect anti-adherence protein antibodies in sera from patients with invasive amebiasis in Cairo, Egypt
22. Association of serum antibodies to adherence lectin with invasive amebiasis and asymptomatic infection with Entamoeba histolytica
23. Serologic testing for amebiasis
24. Blastocystis hominis entritis
25. Presumptive evidence for Blastocystis hominis as a cause of colitis
26. Epidemiology and clinical features associated with Blastocystis hominis infection
27. Blastocystis hominis: Pathogen or fellow traveler?
28. Blastocystis hominis: Epidemiology and natural history
29. Blastocystosis y otras infeccions por protozoos intestinals en comunidades humanas riberenas de la cuenca del Rio Valdivia, Chile
30. Frecuencia de infection por enteroparasitos en escolares de Santiago de Chile
31. Eipidemiology of Blastocystis hominis infection in Papua New Guinia: Age prevalence and associations with other parasites
32. Cryptosporidium in suburban community in Maracaibo, Venezuela
33. Blastocystis hominis: Prevalence in asymptomatic versus symptomatic hosts
34. Epidemiologic survey of Blastocystis hominis in Japan
35. Family outbreak of Blastocystis hominis associated gastroentritis
36. Epidemiology and pathogenecity of Blastocystis hominis
37. Structure
38. Trichomonads in respiratory tract: A case report and litrature review
39. A trichomonas species in a mixed microbial meningitis
40. Trichomonas complicating esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis: Diagnosis by transmission electronic microscopy
41. Production and characterization of murine monoclonal antibodies to Blastocystis hominis