A real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the identification and quantification of American Leishmania species on the basis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 122-132

  Castilho, Tiago Moreno ^b   Camargo, Luís Marcelo Aranha ^a   McMahon Pratt, Diane ^b   Shaw, Jeffrey Jon ^a   Floeter Winter, Lucile Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MUS; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VIANNIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 39549092123     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.78.122     Document Type: Article

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