DNA amplification approaches for the diagnosis of key parasitic helminth infections of humans

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 143-152

  Gordon, Catherine A ^a,b   Gray, Darren J ^b,c   Gobert, Geoffrey N ^b   McManus, Donald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disease; Humans; Molecular diagnosis; Parasitic helminths

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CESTODE; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CYSTERCERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS CANADENSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS OLIGARTHRUS; ECHINOCOCCUS SHIQUICUS; ECHINOCOCCUS VOGELI; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS; LABORATORY TEST; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; OPISTHORCHIS FELINEUS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PARAGONIMUS WESTERMANI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TAENIA ASIATICA; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; TOXOCARIASIS; TREMATODE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

VERMES;

EID: 79959791912     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2011.05.002     Document Type: Review

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