Definition of genetic markers in nuclear ribosomal DNA for a neglected parasite of primates, Ternidens deminutus (Nematoda: Strongylida) - Diagnostic and epidemiological implications

Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 539-546

  Schindler, A R ^a   De Gruijter, J M ^b   Polderman, A M ^b   Gasser, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Genetic markers; Nematoda; Non human primate; Nuclear ribosomal DNA; Second internal transcribed spacer (ITS 2); Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP); Strongylida; Ternidens deminutus

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOOKWORM; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRONGYLOIDEA; TAXONOMY; TERNIDENS DEMINUTUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; PAPIO ANUBIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PRIMATE DISEASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; STRONGYLOIDEA;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; CERCOPITHECUS MONA; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM BIFURCUM; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA;

EID: 33644676868     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005007936     Document Type: Article

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