Trypanosome identification in wild tsetse populations in Tanzania using generic primers to amplify the ribosomal RNA ITS-1 region

Acta Tropica

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 103-109

  Adams, E R ^a   Malele, I I ^b   Msangi, A R ^b   Gibson, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Generic primers; Glossina; ITS 1; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC VARIATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; RNA; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TESTING METHOD; TSETSE FLY; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLIES;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 33751440806     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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