Detection and identification of old world leishmania by high resolution melt analysis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Talmi Frank, Dalit ^a   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^b,c,d   Schnur, Lionel F ^b   Schönian, Gabriele ^d   Töz, Seray Özensoy ^e   Jaffe, Charles L ^b   Baneth, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE NUMBER; GENOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELT ANALYSIS; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHODIDAE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DOG; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOGS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PSYCHODIDAE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 76249123955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000581     Document Type: Article

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