Sleeping sickness in Zaire: A nested polymerase chain reaction improves the identification of Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) brucei gambiense by specific kinetoplast DNA probes

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-70

  Schares, G ^a,b   Mehlitz, D ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

hybridization; m AECT; PCR; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; Trypanosoma congolense

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CENTRIFUGATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DNA PROBE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0029939898     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1996.d01-11.x     Document Type: Article

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