Use of RAPD for the detection of genetic variation in the human blood fluke, Schistosoma japonicum, from mainland China

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 353-358

  Gasser, Robin B ^a,b   Bao Zhen, Qian ^a   Nansen, Peter ^a   Johansen, Maria V ^c   Bøgh, Henrik ^a  

^a Danish Ctr for Exp Parasitology   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

China; Intraspecific variation; PCR; RAPD; Schistosoma japonicum

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PARASITOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREMATODE; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 0030272434     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1996.0048     Document Type: Article

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