A Leishmania minicircle DNA footprint assay for sensitive detection and rapid speciation of clinical isolates

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1787-1798

  Selvapandiyan, Angamuthu ^a   Duncan, Robert ^b   Mendez, Juan ^b   Kumar, Rajesh ^b   Salotra, Poonam ^b   Cardo, Lisa J ^b   Nakhasi, Hira L ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINICIRCLE DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD DONORS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, KINETOPLAST; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50849085733     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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