The best practice for preparation of samples from FTA®cards for diagnosis of blood borne infections using African trypanosomes as a model system

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ahmed, Heba A ^a,b   MacLeod, Ewan T ^a   Hide, Geoff ^c   Welburn, Susan C ^a   Picozzi, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Zagazig University   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; ELUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA;

BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 79955657589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-68     Document Type: Article

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