Diagnostic procedures [Last Modified: ]
Serum and plasma specimens

Antibody Detection Tests Offered at CDC

Disease Organism Test
Amebiasis Entamoeba histolytica Enzyme immunoassay (EIA)
Babesiosis Babesia microti
Babesia sp. WA1
Immunofluorescence (IFA)
Chagas disease Trypanosoma cruzi IFA
Cysticercosis Larval Taenia solium Immunoblot (Blot)
Echinococcosis Echinococcus granulosus EIA, Blot
Leishmaniasis

Leishmania braziliensis
L. donovani
L. tropica

IFA

Malaria Plasmodium falciparum
P. malariae
P. ovale
P. vivax
IFA
Paragonimiasis Paragonimus westermani Blot
Schistosomiasis Schistosoma sp.
S.  mansoni
S. haematobium
S. japonicum

FAST-ELISA

Blot

Strongyloidiasis Strongyloides stercoralis EIA
Toxocariasis Toxocara canis EIA
Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasma gondii IFA-IgG, EIA-IgM
Trichinellosis (Trichinosis) Trichinella spiralis EIA

Send an email to dpdx@cdc.gov or call the Division of Parasitic Diseases at (770) 488-4431 for information on the following diseases or organisms for which serology tests are not available at CDC, but may be available elsewhere within the United States or abroad:

African trypanosomiasis
Angiostrongylus
Anisakis
Baylisascaris procyonis
Echinococcus multilocularis
Fasciola hepatica

Filariasis
Gnathostoma

For additional information about these tests, how to submit specimens for testing, or for test results and interpretation, call the Division of Parasitic Diseases, at (770) 488-4431.

 

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