Real-time PCR detection and speciation of Cryptosporidium infection using Scorpion probes

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1217-1222

  Stroup, Suzanne E ^a   Roy, Shantanu ^b   Mchele, John ^c   Maro, Venance ^c   Ntabaguzi, Simon ^c   Siddique, Abdullah ^b   Kang, Gagandeep ^d   Guerrant, Richard L ^a   Kirkpatrick, Beth D ^e   Fayer, Ronald ^f   Herbein, Joel ^g   Ward, Honourine ^h   Haque, Rashidul ^b   Houpt, Eric R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g TECHLAB INC   (United States)

^h TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748562180     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46678-0     Document Type: Article

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