Microscopy, PCR and ELISA applied to the epidemiology of amoebiasis in Greece

Parasitology International

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 185-189

  Evangelopoulos, Angelos ^a   Legakis, Nikolaos ^b   Vakalis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

ELISA; Entamoeba dispar; Entamoeba histolytica; PCR

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0034810275     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5769(01)00078-2     Document Type: Article

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