Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases: Old and New Approaches

Table 4

Diagnostic tools for the detection of specific intestinal parasitic diseases offered by the CDC and the NRCP.

	PROTOZOA	TREMATODES		CESTODES		NEMATODES
	Cryptosporidiosis	Fasciolosis	Schistosomiasis	Taeniasis Cysticercosis	Hydatidosis	Filariasis	Strongylodiasis
	Cryptosporidium parvum, C. hominis	Fasciola hepatica, F. gigantica	Schistosoma mansoni	Taenia solium	Echinococcus granulosus, E. multilocularis	Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, B. timori, Loa loa	Strongyloides stercoralis
CDC DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS	Microscopy, EIA, PCR, RT-PCR	—	Microsocopy, FAST-ELISA, IB	Immunoblot,	IB	Microscopy, EIA	Microscopy, EIA
NRCP DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS	Microscopy, EIA	Microscopy, EIA	Microscopy, EIA	IB	EIA	Microscopy, EIA	Microscopy, culture, EIA, IB

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