Characterization of a candidate Trypanosoma rangeli small nucleolar RNA gene and its application in a PCR-based parasite detection

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 72-80

  Morales, Liliana ^a   Romero, Ibeth ^a   Diez, Hugo ^a   Del Portillo, Patricia ^b   Montilla, Marleny ^c   Nicholls, Santiago ^c   Puerta, Concepción ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b Genomics and Evolution of Communities of Environmental Microorganisms   (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PRIMER DNA; PRIMER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA 28S; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RHODNIUS; RNA PROBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

EID: 0036824080     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00027-4     Document Type: Article

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