The bacterial catalase from filarial DNA preparations derives from common pseudomonad contaminants and not from Wolbachia endosymbionts

Parasitology Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-146

  Foster, Jeremy ^a   Baldo, Laura ^b   Blaxter, Mark ^c   Henkle Dührsen, Kimberly ^d   Whitton, Claire ^c   Slatko, Barton ^a   Bandi, Claudio ^b  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CATALASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FILARIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; SAMPLE; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FILARIOIDEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PSEUDOMONAS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 5644233846     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1195-4     Document Type: Article

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