Characterisation of a novel interspersed Toxoplasma gondii DNA repeat with potential uses for PCR diagnosis and PCR-RFLP analysis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-27

  Echeverria, Pablo C ^a   Rojas, Paola A ^a   Martin, Valentina ^a   Guarnera, Eduardo A ^a   Pszenny, Viviana ^a   Angel, Sergio O ^a  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Interspersed DNA repeat; Polymerase chain reaction; Pseudogene; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0033982071     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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