Detection of giardia duodenalis assemblage A and B isolates by immunochromatography in stool samples from Rwandan children

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages O783-O784

  Ignatius, R ^a   Gahutu, J B ^b   Klotz, C ^c   Musemakweri, A ^b   Aebischer, T ^c   Mockenhaupt, F P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

PCR; Genotypes; Giardia duodenalis; Immunochromatography; Microscopy; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RWANDAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNDERWEIGHT; VOMITING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RWANDA;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RWANDA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84913605818     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12596     Document Type: Article

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