Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli infection by duplex PCR assay based on telomeric sequences

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 775-779

  Chiurillo, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Crisante, Gladys ^c   Rojas, Agustina ^c   Peralta, Andreina ^d   Dias, Manuel ^d   Guevara, Palmira ^d   Añez, Néstor ^c   Ramírez, José Luis ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

^b Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FLAGELLATE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUVIIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0141452279     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.5.775-779.2003     Document Type: Article

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