Evaluation of a Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Giardia intestinalis in Stool Samples from Schoolchildren from the Centre-Ouest and Plateau Central Regions of Burkina Faso

Serge Diagbouga^1,2*#, Tibila Kientega^1,2#, Séverine Erismann^3,4, Djeneba Ouermi^2,5, Jasmina Saric^3,4,6, Peter Odermatt^3,4, Tegwinde R. Compaore^2,5, Arsene Zongo^2,5, Grissoum Tarnagda¹, Boubacar Savadogo¹, Jürg Utzinger^3,4, Guéladio Cisse^3,4 and Jacques Simpore^2,5

¹Research Institute for Health Sciences (IRSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

²Biomolecular Research Centre Pietro Annigoni (CERBA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

³Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

⁴University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁵Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetics (LABIOGENE), UFR/SVT University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

⁶Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Serge Diagbouga, Research Institute for Health Sciences (IRSS), P.O. Box 7192, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: +226 70231796 Email: