Application of specific primers in the diagnosis of Encephalitozoon spp.

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 321-323

  Valenčáková, Alexandra ^a   Bálent, Pavol ^a   Novotný, František ^a   Čisláková, Lýdia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Encephalitozoon hellem; Encephalitozoon intestinalis; PCR; Specific primers

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS;

EID: 33645060194     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 12321966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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