Culture-Independent Species Typing of Neotropical Leishmania for Clinical Validation of a PCR-Based Assay Targeting Heat Shock Protein 70 Genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2294-2297

  Garcia, Lineth ^a,b   Kindt, Ann ^a   Bermudez, Hernan ^b   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^c   De Doncker, Simonne ^a   Arevalo, Jorge ^c   Tintaya, Kelly Wilber Quispe ^a,c   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2442551896     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2294-2297.2004     Document Type: Article

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