Rapid identification of isometamidium-resistant stocks of Trypanosoma b. brucei by PCR-RFLP

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-261

  Afework, Yohannes ^a   Mäser, Pascal ^b   Etschmann, Benjamin ^a   Von Samson Himmelstjerna, Georg ^c   Zessin, Karl Hans ^a   Clausen, Peter Henning ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Cell Biology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ISOMETAMIDIUM; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; NUCLEOTIDE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE SFA NI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLONE; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TBAT1 GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; UGANDA; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHENANTHRIDINES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE;

BOS TAURUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 33745748047     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0141-z     Document Type: Article

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