New molecular tools for the indentification of trypanosome species

Future Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-176

  Adams, Emily R ^a   Hamilton, P B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FFLB; Generic primers; ITS; LAMP; RFLP; Species indentification; Species specific; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA PROBE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT FRAGMENT LENGTH BARCODING; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 47249157197     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.3.2.167     Document Type: Review

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