Taenia saginata: Polymerase chain reaction for taeniasis diagnosis in human fecal samples

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 67-69

  Nunes, Cáris Maroni ^a   Lima, Luiz Gustave Ferraz ^a   Manoel, Camila Santos ^a   Pereira, Rodrigo Norberte ^a   Nakano, Mauro Massaham ^a   Garcia, José Fernando ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTICERCOSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FECES; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

HELMINTH DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FECES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIASIS;

EID: 0141669146     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00111-5     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Allan, J.C., Avila, G., Garcia Noval, J., Plisser, A., Craig, P.S., 1990. Immunodiagnosis of taeniasis by coproantigen detection. Parasitology 101, 473-477.
2. Chapman, A., Vallejo, V., Mossie, K.G., Ortiz, D., Agabian, N., Flisser, A., 1995. Isolation and characterization of species-specific DNA probes from Taenia solium and Taenia saginata and their use in an egg detection assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33, 1283-1288.
3. Flisser, A., Reid, A., Garcia-Zepeda, E., McManus, D.P., 1988. Specific detection of Taenia saginata eggs by DNA hybridization. Lancet ii, 1429-1430.
4. González, L.M., Monteiro, E., Harrison, L.J.S., Parkhouse, R.M.E., Garate, T., 2000. Differential diagnosis of Taenia saginata and Taenia solium infection by PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38, 734-744.
5. Gottstein, B., Deplazes, P., Tanner, I., Skagggs, J.S., 1991. Diagnostic identification of Taenia saginata with the polymerase chain reaction. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 85, 248-249.
6. Harrison, L.J.S., Delgado, J., Parkhouse, R.M.E., 1989. Differential diagnosis of Taenia saginata and Taenia solium with DNA probes. Parasitology 100, 459-461.
7. McManus, D.P., Garcia-Zepeda, E., Reid, A., Rishi, A.K., Flisser, A., 1989. Human cysticercosis and taeniasis: molecular approaches for specific diagnosis and parasite identification. Acta Leidensia 57, 81-91.
8. Orlandi, P.A., Lampel, K.A., 2000. Extraction-free, filter-based template preparation for rapid sensitive PCR detection of pathogenic parasite protozoa. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38, 2271-2277.
9. Rishi, A.K., McManus, D.P., 1988. Molecular cloning of Taenia solium genomic DNA and characterization of taeniid cestodes by DNA analysis. Parasitology 97, 161-176.
10. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., Maniatis, T., 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, third ed. Cold Spring Harbor Press, New York.
11. Silva, A.J., Bornay-Linares, F.J., Moura, I.N.S., Slemenda, S.B., Tuttle, J.L., Pieniazek, N.J., 1999. Fast and reliable extraction of protozoan parasite DNA from fecal specimens. Molecular Diagnosis 4, 57-64.
12. Soulsby, E.J.L., 1982. Helminths, Arthropods and Protozoa of Domesticated Animals, seventh ed. Baillieri and Tyndall, London.
13. Tsunoda, K., Ishii, T., 1971. In: Métodos laboratoriais para a pesquisa de coccídeas de galinhas, second ed. Takeda Yakuhin Kogyo, Tokyo. 21 pp.
14. Wilkins, P.P., Allan, J.C., Verastegui, M.A., Costa, M., Eason, A.G., Garcia, H.H., Gonzalez, A.E., Gilman, R.H., Tsang, V.C.W., 1999. Development of a serologic assay to detect Taenia solium taeniasis. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 60, 199-204.