A novel non-amplification assay for the detection of Leishmania spp. in clinical samples using gold nanoparticles

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-61

  Andreadou, Margarita ^a   Liandris, Emmanouil ^a   Gazouli, Maria ^b   Taka, Styliani ^a   Antoniou, Maria ^c   Theodoropoulos, Georgios ^a   Tachtsidis, Ilias ^d   Goutas, Nikolaos ^b   Vlachodimitropoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Kasampalidis, Ioannis ^e   Ikonomopoulos, John ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; DNA; Gold nanoparticles; Leishmania; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS; DNA; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LEISHMANIA; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOGS; GOLD; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84888269879     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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