Post-travel screening of asymptomatic long-term travelers to the tropics for intestinal parasites using molecular diagnostics

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 835-839

  Soonawala, Darius ^a,d   Van Lieshout, Lisette ^a,d   Den Boer, Marion A M ^a,d   Claas, Eric C J ^a,d   Verweij, Jaco J ^b,d   Godkewitsch, André ^c,d   Ratering, Marchel ^c,d   Visser, Leo G ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c Vaccinatiecentrum Wageningen   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DNA ISOLATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PARASITE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900415612     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0594     Document Type: Article

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