The detection and PCR-based characterization of the parasites causing trypanosomiasis in water-buffalo herds in Venezuela

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-370

  Garcia, H ^a   Garcia, M E ^a   Perez, H ^b   Mendoza Leon, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BUFFALO; CENTRIFUGATION; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIVESTOCK; MICROHEMATOCRIT CENTRIFUGATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE;

BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOZOON;

EID: 21044443371     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X36271     Document Type: Article

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