The Anopheles superpictus complex: Introduction of a new malaria vector complex in Iran

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 429-434

  Oshaghi, M A ^a   Yaghobi Ershadi, M R ^a   Shemshad, Kh ^a   Pedram, M ^b   Amani, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anopheles superpictus; Iran; Malaria; Middle East; rDNA ITS2; Species complex

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IRAN; LARVA; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IRAN; LARVA; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 58449102434     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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