An epitope-specific PCR test for diagnosis of Leishmania donovani infections

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-45

  Arora, Sunil K ^a   Gupta, Sachin ^a   Bhardwaj, Suvercha ^a   Sachdeva, Naresh ^a   Sharma, N L ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; hsp70; Leishmania donovani; PCR; Southern blot; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA PROBE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAMSTER; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA ETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LIVER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMASTIGOTE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPLEEN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CRICETINAE; EPITOPE MAPPING; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NASO HEXACANTHUS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 36549084521     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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