Medical Microbiology

626 LaboratoryDiagnosisofParasitoses

Table 11. 5 Continued:ImmunologicalandMolecularDiagnosisofParasitosesin

Humans

Parasitosis Methods

Antibodyassay^1 Antigenassay DNAanalysis

Trichinellosis ELISA,IFAT,WB PCR(biopsy)

Strongyloidosis ELISA,IFAT,WB

Ascariosis ELISA

Anisakiosis ELISA

(^1) Inparentheses:techniqueswithlowreliability.
(^2) RapidtesttodetectPlasmodium-specificantigensorlactatedehydrogenase.
Abbreviations:ELISA:enzyme-linkedimmunosorbentassay,HA:hemagglutination,
IFAT:indirectimmunofluorescentantibodytest,ISAGA:immunosorbentagglutina-
tionassay,CFT:complementfixationtest,PCR:polymerasechainreaction,SFT:Sa-
bin-Feldmantest,WB:Westernblot(immunoblot).
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