Assessing the marginal error in diagnosis and cure of Schistosoma mansoni in areas of low endemicity using Percoll and PCR techniques

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-321

  Allam, Amal Farahat ^a   Kader, Ola ^a   Zaki, Adel ^a   Youssef Shehab, Amel ^a   Farag, Hoda Fahmy ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Intensity; Kato Katz; Percoll; Polymerase chain reaction; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TREATMENT; ENDEMISM; ERROR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERCOLL TECHNIQUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHILD; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EGYPT; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 60349108250     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02225.x     Document Type: Article

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