Nested cytochrome B polymerase chain reaction diagnostics detect sporozoites of hemosporidian parasites in peripheral blood of naturally infected birds

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1512-1515

  Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Iezhova, Tatjana A ^a   Loiseau, Claire ^b   Sehgal, Ravinder N M ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME B; PROTOZOAL DNA;

BIRD; BLOOD; CYTOCHROME; DETECTION METHOD; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN;

AFRICA; ANDROPADUS LATIROSTRIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD PARASITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; HAEMOPROTEUS; HOST; LEUCOCYTOZOON; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN FOREST; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GHANA; HAEMOSPORIDA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SONGBIRD; VETERINARY;

ANDROPADUS LATIROSTRIS; AVES; LEUCOCYTOZOON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GHANA; HAEMOSPORIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITEMIA; PASSERIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

EID: 76749149022     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2105.1     Document Type: Article

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