Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases: Old and New Approaches

Table 3

Diagnostic tools for the detection of specific blood-borne parasitic diseases offered by the CDC and the NRCP.

	African trypanosomiasis	Babesiosis	Chagas disease	Leishmaniasis	Malaria	Toxoplasmosis
	Trypanosoma brucei species	Babesia microti	Trypanosoma cruzi	Leishmania species	Plasmodium species	Toxoplasma gondii
CDC DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS	Microscopy	Microscopy IFA, PCR	Microscopy culture, IFA, EIA	Microscopy, Culture, IFA	Microscopy PCR, IFA	Microscopy IFA, EIA
NRCP DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS	Microscopy, culture, CATT, PCR	Microscopy, IFA	Microscopy, culture, EIA, RT-PCR	Microscopy, Culture, IFA, RT-PCR	Microscopy, IFA, IB, PCR	RT-PCR

CDC: Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. NRCP: National Reference Centre for Parasitology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Abbreviations: see Table 1.