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Blinded, Externally Controlled Multicenter Evaluation of Light Microscopy and PCR for Detection of Microsporidia in Stool Specimens

The quality parameters for the detection of microsporidia in identical sets of 50 stool samples were determined for six laboratories where technicians used light microscopy and for six laboratories where technicians used PCR. The average overall sensitivities were 67% (89% for patient samples only)...

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Published in:J Clin Microbiol
Main Authors: Rinder, Heinz, Janitschke, Klaus, Aspöck, Horst, Da Silva, Alexandre J., Deplazes, Peter, Fedorko, Daniel P., Franzen, Caspar, Futh, Ursula, Hünger, Frank, Lehmacher, Anselm, Meyer, Christian G., Molina, Jean-Michel, Sandfort, Jörg, Weber, Rainer, Löscher, Thomas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1998
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Parasitology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC104932/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9620432/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.36.6.1814-1818.1998
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