A nested PCR for the ssrRNA gene detects Trypanosoma binneyi in the platypus and Trypanosoma sp. in wombats and kangaroos in Australia

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-339

  Noyes, H A ^a   Stevens, J R ^b   Teixeira, M ^c   Phelan, J ^d   Holz, P ^d  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Healesville Sanctuary   (Australia)

Author keywords

Guanidine thiocyanate; Macropus giganteus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Ortholfersia macleayi; Trypanosoma binneyi; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vombatus ursinus

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

DETECTION METHOD; MARSUPIAL; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HEMIDESMOSOME; KANGAROO; MAMMAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MACROPODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYPUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS GIGANTEUS; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; ORTHOLFERSIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BINNEYI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA SP.; VOMBATIDAE; VOMBATIDAE GEN. SP.; VOMBATUS URSINUS;

EID: 0033039924     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(98)00167-2     Document Type: Article

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