Amplification of human DNA by primers targeted to Leishmania kinetoplast DNA and post-genome considerations in the detection of parasites by a polymerase chain reaction

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 423-429

  Vergel, Carolina ^a   Walker, John ^a   Saravia, Nancy G ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA; DNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CHILD; COLOMBIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOMBIA; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 18944404735     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.72.423     Document Type: Article

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