Possibility of false-positive detection for sporozoites in mosquitos (diptera: culicidae) by nested polymerase chain reaction using Plasmodium yoelii genomic DNA

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-281

  Tsuzuki, Ataru ^b   Toma, Takako ^a   Miyagi, Ichiro ^b   Toma, Hiromu ^a   Arakawa, Takeshi ^a   Sato, Yoshiya ^a   Kobayashi, Jun ^a   Mugissa, Mashauri F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035379349     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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