Trypanosoma evansi: A comparison of PCR and parasitological diagnostic tests in experimentally infected mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Fernandez D ^a   Gonzalez Baradat B ^a   Eleizalde, M ^a   Gonzalez Marcano E ^b   Perrone, T ^b   Mendoza, M ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional Experimental Simon Rodriuez   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Molecular and parasitological techniques; Trypanosoma evansi; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CENTRIFUGATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EQUIDAE; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI;

EID: 57049090462     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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