Detection of Brugia parasite DNA in human blood by real-time PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3887-3893

  Rao, Ramakrishna U ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a   Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Supali, Taniawati ^b   Fischer, Peter ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA; DNA, HELMINTH; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIA TIMORI; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE GENUS); NEMATODA;

EID: 33750961836     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00969-06     Document Type: Article

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