Monitoring lymphatic filariasis interventions: Adult mosquito sampling, and improved PCR - Based pool screening method for Wuchereria bancrofti infection in Anopheles mosquitoes

Filaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Boakye, Daniel A ^a   Baidoo, Helena A ^a   Glah, Evans ^a   Brown, Charles ^a   Appawu, Maxwell ^a   Wilson, Michael D ^a  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFORM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHENOL; PYRETHROID;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GHANA; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE SIZE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 39049097211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-6-13     Document Type: Article

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