Assessment of primers designed for the subspecies-specific discrimination among Babesia canis canis, Babesia canis vogeli and Babesia canis rossi by PCR assay

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 16-20

  Duarte, Sabrina Castilho ^a   Linhares, Guido Fontgalland Coelho ^a   Romanowsky, Tatiana Nunes ^a   Neto, Osvaldo José da Silveira ^a   Borges, Ligia Miranda Ferreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Babesia canis subspecies; Canine babesiosis; Hemoparasitosis; Molecular diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS ROSSI; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSPECIES;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; BABESIA CANIS CANIS; BABESIA CANIS ROSSI; BABESIA CANIS VOGELI; BABESIA GIBSONI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 38749109278     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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