Development of multiplex real-time PCR assays for identification of members of the Anopheles funestus species group

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vezenegho, Samuel B ^a,b   Bass, Chris ^c   Puinean, Mirel ^c   Williamson, Martin S ^c   Field, Linda M ^c   Coetzee, Maureen ^a,b   Koekemoer, Lizette L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES LEESONI; ANOPHELES PARENSIS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ANOPHELES VANEEDENI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GOLD STANDARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLUORESCENCE; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAQ POLYMERASE;

EID: 73549108983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-282     Document Type: Article

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