Copro-PCR based detection of Schistosoma eggs using mitochondrial DNA markers

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 250-254

  Gobert, Geoffrey N ^a   Chai, Mitta ^a   Duke, Mary ^a   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egg detection; Faecal; Multiplex polymerase chain reaction; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STANDARDIZATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; MICE; OVUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 22144452929     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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