Development of a genus specific primer set for detection of Leishmania parasites by polymerase chain reaction

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 195-200

  Bhattacharyya, Riddhi ^a   Das, Krishna ^a   Sen, Sandeep ^b   Roy, Syamal ^a   Majumder, Hemanta K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Sen Medical Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Genus specific primer; Leishmania species; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030026804     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00449-1     Document Type: Article

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