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Persistent digestive disorders in the tropics: causative infectious pathogens and reference diagnostic tests

Published inBMC infectious diseases, vol. 13, 37
Publication date2013
Abstract

Persistent digestive disorders account for considerable disease burden in the tropics. Despite advances in understanding acute gastrointestinal infections, important issues concerning epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and control of most persistent digestive symptomatologies remain to be elucidated. Helminths and intestinal protozoa are considered to play major roles, but the full extent of the aetiologic spectrum is still unclear. We provide an overview of pathogens causing digestive disorders in the tropics and evaluate available reference tests.

Keywords
  • Animals
  • Bacteria/pathogenicity
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques/methods
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases/diagnosis/etiology
  • Humans
  • Parasites/pathogenicity
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Viruses/pathogenicity
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BECKER, Sören L et al. Persistent digestive disorders in the tropics: causative infectious pathogens and reference diagnostic tests. In: BMC infectious diseases, 2013, vol. 13, p. 37. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-37
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