Leishmania: Identification of old world species using a permissively primed intergenic polymorphic-polymerase chain reaction

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-77

  Eisenberger, Carol L ^a   Jaffe, Charles L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

10 mM Tris HCl 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0; Complex; Identification; Old World Leishmania; Polymerase chain reaction; Species specificity; TE

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ILEX COOKII; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032804783     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4355     Document Type: Article

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