Use of PCR to improve diagnostic yield in an outbreak of cyclosporiasis in Lima, Peru

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 712-717

  Mundaca, Carmen C ^a   Torres Slimming, Paola A ^a   Araujo Castillo, Roger V ^a   Morán, Manuel ^a   Bacon, David J ^a   Ortega, Ynes ^b   Gilman, Robert H ^c   Blazes, David L ^a,d  

^a California   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclospora cayetanensis; Diagnosis; Diarrhoea; Disease outbreak; PCR; Peru

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS;

EID: 46549086546     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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