Frontiers of parasitology research in the People's Republic of China: Infection, diagnosis, protection and surveillance

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Jun Hu ^a   Wang, Hen ^b   Chen, Jia Xu ^a   Bergquist, Robert ^c   Tanner, Marcel ^d,e   Utzinger, Jürg ^d,e   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^a  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c Ingerod ^*  (Sweden)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Infection; Parasitology; Peoples Republic of China; Public health responses; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; LATEX; MICROCRYSTALLINE WAX; PROTEIN 14 3 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHINA; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIPSTICK DYE IMMUNOASSAY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTERITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROPOD DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALARIA CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOMELANIA HUPENSIS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALIA; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84866935515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-221     Document Type: Review

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