Identification of human intestinal parasites affecting an asymptomatic peri-urban Argentinian population using multi-parallel quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cimino, Rubén O ^a,b   Jeun, Rebecca ^c   Juarez, Marisa ^a,b   Cajal, Pamela S ^a   Vargas, Paola ^a   Echazú, Adriana ^a   Bryan, Patricia E ^c   Nasser, Julio ^a,b   Krolewiecki, Alejandro ^a   Mejia, Rojelio ^a,b,c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Hookworm speciation; Intestinal parasites; Molecular diagnostics; Prevalence; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOOKWORM DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ARGENTINIAN; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; POLYPARASITISM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URBAN POPULATION; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; FECES; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84937120832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0994-z     Document Type: Article

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