PCR identification of Trypanosoma lewisi, a common parasite of laboratory rats

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Desquesnes, Marc ^a,b   Ravel, Sophie ^c   Cuny, Gérard ^c  

^a CIRDES   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FECES; FLEA; GENUS; INGESTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0011426044     PISSN: 14759292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9292-1-2     Document Type: Article

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