Real-time quantitative PCR in parasitology

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 337-342

  Bell, Andrew S ^a   Ranford Cartwright, Lisa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RNA;

ACCURACY; AMPLICON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; NEOSPORA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA;

NEOSPORA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0036697225     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4922(02)02331-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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