Consistence of miniexon polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism and single-copy gene sequence analyses in discriminating Leishmania genotypes

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-299

  Serin, Mehmet S ^a   Waki, Kayoko ^b   Chang, Kwang Poo ^b   Aslan, Gonul ^a   Direkel, Sahin ^a   Otag, Feza ^a   Kayar, Begum ^c   Koksal, Fatih ^c   Emekdas, Gurol ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Leishmania; Miniexon; PCR; RFLP; Single gene

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847335051     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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