Intestinal Amebae

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 393-422

  Ali, Ibne Karim M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Amebiasis laboratory diagnosis; Antigen detection; Entamoeba Bangladeshi; Entamoeba dispar; Entamoeba histolytica; Entamoeba moshkovskii; Molecular detection; Serology

Indexed keywords

SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AMEBIASIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMENSALISM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA BANGLADESHI; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA GINGIVALIS; ENTAMOEBA HARTMANNI; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; ENTAMOEBA POLECKI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PROCEDURES;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84929956314     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2015.02.009     Document Type: Review

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