Intestinal parasitic infections in an industrialized country; A new focus on children with better DNA-based diagnostics

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1492-1498

  Verweij, Jaco J ^a   Van Lieshout, Lisette ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

children; Cryptosporidium; D. fragilis; E. histolytica; G. lamblia; real time PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 84855706794     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001211     Document Type: Article

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