Mobile suitcase laboratory for rapid detection of Leishmania donovani using recombinase polymerase amplification assay

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mondal, Dinesh ^a   Ghosh, Prakash ^a   Khan, Md Anik Ashfaq ^a   Hossain, Faria ^a   Böhlken Fascher, Susanne ^b   Matlashewski, Greg ^c   Kroeger, Axel ^d,e   Olliaro, Piero ^e,f   Abd El Wahed, Ahmed ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Leishmania donovani; Recombinase polymerase amplification assay; Suitcase laboratory; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEPTOSPIROSIS RAPID TEST; MOBILE SUITCASE LABORATORY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINASE POLYMERASE AMPLIFICATION ASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84971290100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1572-8     Document Type: Article

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