Recent progress in molecular diagnosis of sleeping sickness

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 719-730

  Deborggraeve, Stijn ^a   Büscher, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

diagnosis; diagnostic accuracy; DNA; hybridization; LAMP; NASBA; PCR; RNA; sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 84869446835     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.12.72     Document Type: Review

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