Multi-parallel qPCR provides increased sensitivity and diagnostic breadth for gastrointestinal parasites of humans: Field-based inferences on the impact of mass deworming

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Easton, Alice V ^a,b   Oliveira, Rita G ^b   O'Connell, Elise M ^a   Kepha, Stella ^c   Mwandawiro, Charles S ^d   Njenga, Sammy M ^d   Kihara, Jimmy H ^d   Mwatele, Cassian ^d   Odiere, Maurice R ^d   Brooker, Simon J ^e   Webster, Joanne P ^f   Anderson, Roy M ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Co infection; Deworming; Diagnostics; Gastrointestinal parasites; Impact evaluation; qPCR; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; SOIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PARASITE; KATO KATZ METHOD; KENYA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; FECES; GENETICS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEMATODA; PARASITES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956871482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1314-y     Document Type: Article

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