Comparison of five commercial real-time PCRs for in-vitro diagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia duodenalis, Cryptosporidium spp., Cyclospora cayetanensis, and Dientamoeba fragilis in human stool samples

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 May-Jun:41:102042. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102042. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

¹ Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany. Electronic address: Frickmann@bnitm.de.
² Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
³ Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
⁴ TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin, Germany.
⁵ Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Institute for Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁶ Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; National Reference Centre for Tropical Pathogens, Hamburg, Germany.

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Keywords: CE-IVD; In-vitro diagnostics; Protozoa; Test comparison; qPCR.

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