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Clinical Parasitology: Special Topics

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What is the gold standard for diagnosis of parasite infection?
Microscopy
What type of dye is utilized in egg counting technique?
Fluorescent dye
What are the types of detection used in serological assays?
antigen-detection or antibody detection
What type of microscopy is used when the computer has a database of different pictures prepared from slides of the parasites?
Automation microscopy
What is identified in antigen-detection?
Parasite itself
What is identified in antibody-detection?
The antibody produced by the host to counter the parasite
What are the disadvabtages of serological assays?
Time consuming and laborious
What parasites are detected in complement fixation test?
Trypanosomiasis, Helminthosis, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis and Toxoplasmosis.
This type of diagnosis is economically cheaper and could now be assisted by a computer however, is technically dificult.
Microscopy
What are the types of serological assay?
"Complement Fixation Test, Latex Agglutination Test, Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test, ELISA, Luciferase Immunoprecipitation System (LIPS)
Able to detect low amounts of parasite
Sensitive
What is the positive result in ELISA?
Color formation
What plate is used in ELISA?
microtiter plate
Ruc-Nie fusion assay is an example
Luciferase Immunoprecipitation System (LIPS)
What are the types of molecular based methods?
PCR, Real-time PCR, Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD), Microsatellite Marker, Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification, Luminex-based Assays, Nanotechnology, and Biosensor.
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