Fluorescence-based detection of Leishmania infantum DNA in Phlebotomus vectors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 334-336

  Reale, Stefano ^a   Torina, Alessandra ^a   Sole, Maria ^a   Calderone, Simona ^a   Piazza, Maria ^a   Lupo, Tiziana ^a   Manna, Laura ^b   Gravino, Angelo Elio ^b   Currò, Vittoria ^a   Vitale, Fabrizio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Leishmania; Phlebotomus; Real time; Sandfly; Vectors

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLUORESCENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INSECT; ITALY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; SERGENTOMYIA MINUTA;

EID: 57849131360     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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