Real-time PCR for detection of Strongyloides stercoralis in human stool samples from Côte d'Ivoire: Diagnostic accuracy, inter-laboratory comparison and patterns of hookworm co-infection

Acta Tropica

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 210-217

  Becker, Sören L ^a,b,c   Piraisoody, Nivetha ^c   Kramme, Stefanie ^a,b   Marti, Hanspeter ^a,b   Silué, Kigbafori D ^d,e   Panning, Marcus ^f   Nickel, Beatrice ^a,b   Kern, Winfried V ^f   Herrmann, Mathias ^c   Hatz, Christoph F ^a,b,g   N'Goran, Eliézer K ^d,e   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   von Müller, Lutz ^c  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^e CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Baermann technique; Diagnostic accuracy; Hookworm; Koga agar plate culture; Real time PCR; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGAR; FECAL PELLET; LABORATORY METHOD; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAERMANN TECHNIQUE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; KATO KATZ TECHNIQUE; KOGA AGAR PLATE TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; STOOL MICROSCOPY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; YOUNG ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; GENETICS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; VERMES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939632864     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.019     Document Type: Article

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