Differential identification of Ascogregarina species (Apicomplexa: Lecudinidae) in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) by polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1352-1356

  Morales, Maria E ^a   Ocampo, Clara B ^a,b   Cadena, Horacio ^a,b   Copeland, Claudia S ^a   Termini, Michael ^a,c   Wesson, Dawn M ^a,c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASCOGREGARINA BARRETTI; ASCOGREGARINA CULICIS; ASCOGREGARINA TAIWANENSIS; CROSS INFECTION; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; APICOMPLEXA; ASCOGREGARINA; ASCOGREGARINA CULICIS; ASCOGREGARINA TAIWANENSIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; GREGARINIA; LECUDINIDAE; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS;

EID: 32544442038     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-442R.1     Document Type: Article

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