Comparison of a Stool Antigen Detection Kit and PCR for Diagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar Infections in Asymptomatic Cyst Passers in Iran-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Comparison of a Stool Antigen Detection Kit and PCR for Diagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar Infections in Asymptomatic Cyst Passers in Iran

Published:2006-06 Issue:6 Volume:44 Page:2258-2261
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Solaymani-Mohammadi Shahram¹²,Rezaian Mostafa¹,Babaei Zahra¹,Rajabpour Azam³,Meamar Ahmad R.¹,Pourbabai Ahmad A.³,Petri William A.²

Affiliation:

1. Division of Intestinal and Genital Protozoal Diseases, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 14155 Tehran 6446, Iran

2. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-1340

3. Department of Microbiology, School of Science, Qom Azad University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

ABSTRACT The present study was conducted to compare stool antigen detection with PCR for the diagnosis of Entamoeba sp. infection in asymptomatic cyst passers from Iran. Entamoeba dispar and, in one case, E. moshkovskii were the Entamoeba spp. found in the amebic cyst passers. There was a 100% correlation between the results from the TechLab E. histolytica II stool antigen kit and those from nested PCR. We concluded that E. dispar is much more common in asymptomatic cyst passers in Iran and that antigen detection and PCR are comparable diagnostic modalities.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.00530-06

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