Sensitive measure of prevalence and parasitaemia of haemosporidia from European blackbird (Turdus merula) populations: Value of PCR-RFLP and quantitative PCR

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 685-692

  Bentz, S ^a   Rigaud, T ^a   Barroca, M ^a   Martin Laurent, F ^b   Bru, D ^c   Moreau, J ^a   Faivre, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c Service Commun de Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Field populations; Haemoproteus; Parasitaemia; PCR RFLP; Plasmodium; Prevalence; Real time PCR; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; HAEMOSPORIDA; PARASITEMIA; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 33751097711     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006001090     Document Type: Article

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