Development of a new PCR protocol for the detection of species and genotypes (strains) of Echinococcus in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1065-1071

  Schneider, Renate ^a   Gollackner, Bernd ^a   Edel, Bernhard ^a   Schmid, Katharina ^a   Wrba, Friedrich ^a   Tucek, Georg ^b   Walochnik, Julia ^a   Auer, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Pathological bacteriological Institute   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Echinococcus granulosus; Formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissues; Genotypes; Human hydatid disease; PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; ND1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SWINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 44149120091     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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