The identification, diversity and prevalence of trypanosomes in field caught tsetse in Tanzania using ITS-1 primers and fluorescent fragment length barcoding

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 439-444

  Adams, E R ^a   Hamilton, P B ^b   Malele, I I ^c   Gibson, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Fluorescent primers; FTA cards; Generic primers; Glossina; ITS 1 region; LSU ribosomal RNA gene; PCR; SSU ribosomal RNA gene; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT FRAGMENT LENGTH BARCODING; FOREST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1 GENERIC PRIMER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

GLOSSINA (GENUS); TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 43649083620     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.07.013     Document Type: Article

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