Abstract:

Tropical infectious diseases remain predominant among emerging infectious diseases, and some of those are showing a spreading trend worldwide. Improvement of diagnostic techniques is a key to the control of tropical diseases. In this review, we provide an overview on research development of diagnostic techniques for the diseases, especially the development of immunological and molecular detection techniques.

Key words: Tropical infectious disease, Parasitic disease, Detection, Diagnosis, Immunological detection technique, Molecular detection technique