ImmunoCard STAT! cartridge antigen detection assay compared to microplate enzyme immunoassay and modified Kinyoun's acid-fast staining technique for detection of Cryptosporidium in fecal specimens

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1037-1041

  El Moamly, Amal Abdul Rasheed ^a   El Sweify, Mohamed Aly ^a,b  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMMUNOCARTRIDGE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINYOUN ACID FAST STAINING TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROPLATE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; STAINING;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM;

EID: 84857046939     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2585-z     Document Type: Article

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