Identification and differentiation of Leishmania species in clinical samples by PCR amplification of the miniexon sequence and subsequent restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3147-3153

  Marfurt, Jutta ^a   Nasereddin, Abed ^b   Niederwieser, Igor ^a   Jaffe, Charles L ^b   Beck, Hans Peter ^a   Felger, Ingrid ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EXONS; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037492951     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3147-3153.2003     Document Type: Article

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