2013
Advances in the Diagnosis of Endemic Treponematoses: Yaws, Bejel, and Pinta
MITJÀ, Oriol; David ŠMAJS a Quique BASSATZákladní 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
UT WoS
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.