Identification and determination of the relationships of species and strains within the genus Leishmania using single primers in the polymerase chain reaction

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-29

  Schönian, Gabriele ^a   Schweynoch, Carola ^a   Zlateva, Kalina ^a   Oskam, Linda ^b   Kroon, Nel ^b   Gräser, Yvonne ^a   Presber, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic relatedness; Leishmania; Phylogeny; Polymerase chain reaction profiling; Single primers

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS MEXICANA;

EID: 2542509923     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02572-8     Document Type: Article

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