Evaluation of a species-specific PCR assay for the Anopheles funestus group from eleven African countries and Madagascar

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 142-147

  Weeto, M M ^a   Koekemoer, L L ^a   Kamau, L ^b   Hunt, R H ^a   Coetzee, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; An. leesoni; An. parensis; An. rivulorum; An. vaneedeni; Anopheles funestus; PCR

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; DNA;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANGOLA; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; ETHIOPIA; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KENYA; MADAGASCAR; MALAWI; MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; UGANDA; ZAMBIA; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STANDARD;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; FUNESTUS GROUP;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 1842557338     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)00019-1     Document Type: Article

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