J 2013

Advances in the Diagnosis of Endemic Treponematoses: Yaws, Bejel, and Pinta

MITJÀ, Oriol; David ŠMAJS a Quique BASSAT

Základní údaje

Originální název

Advances in the Diagnosis of Endemic Treponematoses: Yaws, Bejel, and Pinta

Autoři

MITJÀ, Oriol; David ŠMAJS a Quique BASSAT

Vydání

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, San Francisco, Public Library of Science, 2013, 1935-2735

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.489

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14110/13:00070883

Organizační jednotka

Lékařská fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

endemic treponematoses; treponema; bejel; yaws; pinta

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 13. 4. 2014 11:45, Ing. Mgr. Věra Pospíšilíková

Anotace

V originále

Improved understanding of the differential diagnosis of endemic treponematoses is needed to inform clinical practice and to ensure the best outcome for a new global initiative for the eradication of yaws, bejel, and pinta. Traditionally, the human treponematoses have been differentiated based upon their clinical manifestations and epidemiologic characteristics because the etiologic agents are indistinguishable in the laboratory. Serological tests are still considered standard laboratory methods for the diagnosis of endemic treponematoses and new rapid point-of-care treponemal tests have become available which are extremely useful in low-resource settings. In the past ten years, there has been an increasing effort to apply polymerase chain reaction to treponematoses and whole genome fingerprinting techniques have identified genetic signatures that can differentiate the existing treponemal strains; however, definitive diagnosis is also hampered by widespread unavailability of molecular diagnostics. We review the dilemmas in the diagnosis of endemic treponematoses, and advances in the discovery of new diagnostic tools.