Semi-nested PCR for the specific detection of Habronema microstoma or Habronema muscae DNA in horse faeces

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 733-739

  Traversa, D ^a   Giangaspero, A ^b   Iorio, R ^a   Otranto, D ^c   Paoletti, B ^a   Gasser, R B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coprological diagnosis; Epidemiology; Habronema microstoma; Habronema muscae; Horse; Second internal transcribed spacer of ribosomal DNA; Semi nested PCR

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRASCHIA MEGASTOMA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HABRONEMA MICROSTOMA; HABRONEMA MUSCAE; HORSE; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERFORMANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN INFECTION; STOMACH DISEASE; STRONGYLOIDEA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FECES; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; SPIRUROIDEA;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; CYATHOSTOMINAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HABRONEMA MICROSTOMA; HABRONEMA MUSCAE; HABRONEMATIDAE; METAZOA; MICROSTOMA; NEMATODA; SPIRURIDA; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA; VERMES;

EID: 10644274483     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004006122     Document Type: Article

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