Diagnosis of a malayan filariasis case using a shotgun diagnostic metagenomics assay

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gao, Dian ^a   Yu, Qiongfang ^a   Wang, Guangqiang ^b   Wang, Guitang ^c   Xiong, Fan ^c  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brugia malayi; Filariasis; Helminth; Metagenomics; Parasite

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; HEMOGLOBIN; HELMINTH DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SWELLING; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIAN FILARIASIS; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIPHORA; ERYTHEMA; EXTENDED PARALLEL SEQUENCING; EYE DISEASE; EYE REDNESS; EYE STINGING; FEMALE; FILARIAL GENOME; GENOME; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; METAGENOMICS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NIGHT TIME ITCHING; NONHUMAN; OCULAR PRURITUS; PRURITUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORE EYE; SWELLING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FILARIASIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEW YORK; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRUGIA MALAYI; DNA, HELMINTH; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; NEW YORK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84958173111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1363-2     Document Type: Article

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