Detection and identification of Leishmania DNA within naturally infected sand flies by seminested PCR on minicircle kinetoplastic DNA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1933-1938

  Aransay, Ana M ^a,b   Scoulica, Efstathia ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; KINETOPLAST DNA;

DETECTION METHOD; DNA; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEISHMANIASIS; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GREECE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; URBAN HEALTH;

INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0034019875     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1933-1938.2000     Document Type: Article

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