Design and Evaluation of a Specific Primer Pair for the Diagnosis and Identification of Acanthamoeba polyphaga

Current Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 360-363

  Ortega Rivas, Antonio ^a   Lorenzo Morales, Jacob ^a   Martinez Carretero, Enrique ^a   Villa Lloberas, Mercedes ^b   Valladares Hernández, Basilio ^a   Del Castillo Remiro, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PRIMER DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACANTHAMOEBIASIS; ARTICLE; MESENTERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED MICROSATELLITE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MESENTERY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1942453743     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-003-4211-5     Document Type: Article

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