Activity 3 micropara lab

Detects and measures antibody present in blood. It is often used as screening tool before more in depth tests

Detects a disease based antigen through presence of viral proteins usually having results in 20 mins or less

Detects immune deposits (antibodies and or complements) in tissues

Utilizes reverse transcription of RNA into DNA and polymerase chain reaction to simplify and detect RNA targets

Amplifies target genes using DNA polymerase that have strand displacement activity

to check for chronic illnesses or infections in lungs

used for qualitative or semi-quantitative diagnosis of intestinal helminthic infection

Identification of abnormalities in morphology and pathology changes and different counts of blood

Identifying present parasite/protozoa in stools

Isolates and identifies eggs of pinworms when suspected to pinworm infection

Specimen examined of sputum test
Parasites that can be found

Specimen examined for kato katz

Parasites found

Specimen examined for Giemsa stain
Parasites found

Specimen examined for scotch tape method
Parasites found