Comparison of fluorescence, antigen and PCR assays to detect Cryptosporidium parvum in fecal specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 283-288

  Bialek, Ralf ^a   Binder, Nicole ^a   Dietz, Klaus ^a   Joachim, Anja ^b   Knobloch, Jürgen ^a   Zelck, Ulrike E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036334370     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00408-X     Document Type: Article

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