Onchocerca volvulus: Development of a species specific polymerase chain reaction-based assay

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 164-166

  Merriweather, Anthony ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030176433     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0062     Document Type: Article

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