Improved specificity of trypanosoma cruzi identification by polymerase chain reaction using an oligonucleotide derived from the amino-terminal sequence of a Tc24 protein

Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 581-590

  Guevara Espinoza, A ^a,b   Schoneck R ^a   Yahiaoui, B ^a   Ouaissi, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b HOSPITAL VOZANDES   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

diagnosis; PCR; Tc24 recombinant protein; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 0029562318     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182000077064     Document Type: Article

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