Detection of Trypanosoma brucei parasites in blood samples using real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 440-445

  Mugasa, Claire M ^a,b   Schoone, Gerard J ^b   Ekangu, Rosine A ^c   Lubega, George W ^a   Kager, Piet A ^d   Schallig, Henk D F H ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parasites; Real time NASBA; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 47249152212     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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