Identification of taeniid eggs in the faeces from carnivores based on multiplex PCR using targets in mitochondrial DNA

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 911-920

  Trachsel, D ^a   Deplazes, P ^a   Mathis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

E. multilocularis; Echinococcus granulosus; Faecal samples; Genotypes; Mitochondrial genes; Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Quantitative PCR; Taenia spp.

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; DIPYLIDIUM; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS VOGELI; FECES CULTURE; FLOTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; MESOCESTOIDEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CATS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOGS; FECES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; DIPYLIDIUM; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MESOCESTOIDES; TAENIA; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 34248397119     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007002235     Document Type: Article

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