Development of a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the quantification of Leishmania species and the monitoring of systemic distribution of the pathogen

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-30

  Tupperwar, Nitin ^a   Vineeth, Varanasi ^b   Rath, Satyajit ^b   Vaidya, Tushar ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Leishmaniasis; Quantitation; Real time PCR; Systemic infection; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GP63 GENE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FOOT; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPH NODES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLEEN;

EID: 41949124274     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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