Molecular diagnostics and parasitic disease

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 461-503

  Vasoo, Shawn ^a   Pritt, Bobbi S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amebiasis; Babesiosis; Leishmaniasis; Malaria; NAAT; PCR; Trichomonas; Trypanosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ATOVAQUONE; CHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEFLOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; BABESIA; BALAMUTHIA; BALAMUTHIA INFECTION; BLOOD SMEAR; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVICE APPROVAL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIASIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GRANULOMATOUS AMEBIC ENCEPHALITIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOA; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PIROPLASMOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SURFACE ENHANCED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHOMONIASIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

AMEBIASIS; BABESIOSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; NAAT; PCR; TRICHOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

BABESIOSIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 84881488032     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2013.03.008     Document Type: Review

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