Recent Advances in Clinical Parasitology Diagnostics

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Yansouni, Cedric P ^a,b   Merckx, Joanna ^b   Libman, Michael D ^a,b   Ndao, Momar ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Nucleic acid amplification techniques; Parasitic diseases; Parasitology; Proteomics; Rapid diagnostic tests

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALGORITHM; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CARD AGGLUTINATION TEST FOR TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIENTAMOEBA; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLIASIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS RAPID TEST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALARIA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TEST; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOON; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 84920845721     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-014-0434-9     Document Type: Review

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