Entamoeba histolytica: Direct PCR-based typing of strains using faecal DNA

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 77-80

  Zaki, Mehreen ^a,c   Verweij, Jaco J ^b   Clark, C Graham ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; VIET NAM;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SERINE RICH PROTEIN, ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; SERINE-RICH PROTEIN, ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TAQ POLYMERASE; VIETNAM;

EID: 0141781070     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00121-8     Document Type: Article

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