Neurocysticercosis: Detection of Taenia solium DNA in human cerebrospinal fluid using a semi-nested PCR based on HDP2

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-323

  Hernandez M ^a   Gonzalez, L M ^b   Fleury, A ^c   Saenz, B ^a   Parkhouse, R M E ^d   Harrison, L J S ^e   Garate, T ^b   Sciutto, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HDP2 GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAENIA SOLIUM;

TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 45849100897     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X278856     Document Type: Article

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