The use of Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) to detect the re-emerging Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) in the Luangwa and Zambezi valleys

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Namangala, Boniface ^a   Hachaambwa, Lottie ^b   Kajino, Kiichi ^c   Mweene, Aaron S ^d   Hayashida, Kyouko ^c   Simuunza, Martin ^d   Simukoko, Humphrey ^d   Choongo, Kennedy ^d   Chansa, Pamela ^b   Lakhi, Shabir ^b   Moonga, Ladslav ^a   Chota, Amos ^a   Ndebe, Joseph ^d   Nsakashalo Senkwe, Mutale ^e   Chizema, Elizabeth ^e   Kasonka, Lackson ^b   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

HAT; RIME LAMP; SRA LAMP; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

DNA; MELARSOPROL; SURAMIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALAISE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; REPETITIVE INSERTION MOBILE ELEMENT LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; SERUM RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED GENE LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; ZIMBABWE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; TIME; ZAMBIA;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870320063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-282     Document Type: Article

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