Multiplex PCR on single unembryonated Ascaris (roundworm) eggs

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 939-943

  Carlsgart, Josefine ^a   Roepstorff, Allan ^a   Nejsum, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; HELMINTH DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS; DNA ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FECES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS SP.; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; ASCARIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FECES; OVUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65549168574     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1307-7     Document Type: Article

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