Real-time Pcr/rflp assay to detect giardia intestinalis genotypes in human isolates with diarrhea in Egypt

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1000-1004

  Helmy, Moshira M F ^a   Abdel Fattah, Hisham S ^a,b   Rashed, Laila ^a,c  

^a MISR UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^b Misr University for Science and Technology   (Egypt)

^c Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

BIOASSAY; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IODINE; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; SAMPLE PREPARATION; THRESHOLD; VULNERABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; TROPHOZOITE; AGED; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EGYPT; FECES; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EGYPT; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73949105839     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1670.1     Document Type: Article

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