Biomphalaria spp: Identification of the intermediate snail hosts of Schistosoma mansoni by polymerase chain reaction amplification and restriction enzyme digestion of the ribosomal RNA gene intergenic spacer

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 180-187

  Vidigal, Teofânia H D A ^a,b   Spatz, Linus ^d   Nunes, Diana N ^a,c   Simpson, Andrew J G ^c   Carvalho, Omar S ^a   Dias Neto, Emmanuel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^d R Prof Antônio Prudente ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARGENTINA (FISH); BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031822766     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4286     Document Type: Article

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