Detection of intestinal protozoa in paediatric patients with gastrointestinal symptoms by multiplex real-time PCR

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 545-550

  Maas, L ^a   Dorigo Zetsma, J W ^a   de Groot, C J ^a   Bouter, S ^a   Plotz F B ^a   Van Ewijk, B E ^a  

^a Tergooi Hospitals   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Dientamoeba fragilis; Gastrointestinal symptoms; Intestinal protozoa; Multiplex real time PCR; Paediatrics; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CLIOQUINOL; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEFECATION HABIT; DIENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MULTIPLEX REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES;

BLASTOCYSTIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIENTAMOEBA FRAGILIS; ENTAMOEBA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PARASITES; PARASITOLOGY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84904414105     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12386     Document Type: Article

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