O-5S quantitative real-time PCR: a new diagnostic tool for laboratory confirmation of human onchocerciasis

BACKGROUND: Onchocerciasis is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus. In endemic areas, the diagnosis is commonly confirmed by microscopic examination of skin snip samples, though this technique is considered to have low sensitivity. The available melting-curve based...

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Autores principales: Mekonnen, Solomon A., Beissner, Marcus, Saar, Malkin, Ali, Solomon, Zeynudin, Ahmed, Tesfaye, Kassahun, Adbaru, Mulatu G., Battke, Florian, Poppert, Sven, Hoelscher, Michael, Löscher, Thomas, Bretzel, Gisela, Herbinger, Karl-Heinz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28969662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2382-3

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