Impact of transition from microscopy to molecular screening for detection of intestinal protozoa in dutch patients

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages O969-O971

  Svraka Latifovic, S ^a   Bouter, S ^a   Naus, H ^a   Bakker, L J ^a   Timmerman, C P ^a   Dorigo Zetsma, J W ^a  

^a Central Laboratory for Bacteriology and Serology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

PCR; Diagnostic efficiency; Microscopy; Molecular detection; Protozoa; Triple faeces test

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIENTAMOEBA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTAMOEBA; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; LABORATORY TEST; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NETHERLANDS; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; FECES; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MASS SCREENING; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

PROTOZOA;

FECES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MASS SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NETHERLANDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84917699555     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12623     Document Type: Article

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