Enterobius vermicularis: Specific detection by amplification of an internal region of 5S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer and trans-splicing leader RNA analysis. E. vermicularis: Specific detection by PCR and SL1 RNA analysis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 218-222

  Iñiguez, Alena M ^a   Vicente, Ana Carolina P ^a   Araújo, Adauto ^a   Ferreira, Luiz Fernando ^a   Reinhard, Karl J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

AMPLICON; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANUS PRURITUS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; GRANULOMA; HOMOSEXUALITY; INTESTINE PARASITE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PELVIS; PERITONEUM; PRECIPITATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SL1 GENE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANS SPLICING; TRICHURIS; VAGINITIS; VULVA;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FUNGI; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0038731004     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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