Usefulness of genus-specific PCR and southern blot species-specific hybridization for the detection of imported malaria cases in Italy

New Microbiologica

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-76

  Perandin, F ^a   Manca, N ^a   Galati, L ^b   Piccolo, G ^b   Calderaro, A ^b   Viani, I ^b   Ricci, L ^c   Dettori, G ^b   Chezzi, C ^b   Turano, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035220188     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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