A critical assessment of two real-time PCR assays targeting the (SSU) rRNA and gdh genes for the molecular identification of Giardia intestinalis in a clinical laboratory

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 811-816

  Boadi, Samuel ^a   Polley, Spencer D ^a   Kilburn, Sally ^b   Mills, Graham A ^b   Chiodini, Peter L ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; GENETICS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

CALIBRATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84906937824     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202224     Document Type: Article

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