Use of the miniature anion exchange centrifugation technique to isolate Trypanosoma evansi from goats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1026, Issue , 2004, Pages 149-151

  Gutierrez, Carlos ^a   Corbera, Juan A ^a   Doreste, Francisco ^a   Büscher, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Experimental; Goat; Miniature anion exchange centrifugation technique (mAECT); Trypanosoma evansi

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; DIETHYLAMINOETHYL CELLULOSE; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANION EXCHANGE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CAMEL; CANARY; CENTRIFUGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GOAT; INOCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

ANIMALIA; CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

EID: 10444275867     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1307.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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