Development and validation of a PCR-RFLP test to identify African Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) ticks

Acta Tropica

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-58

  Lempereur, Laetitia ^a   Geysen, Dirk ^a   Madder, Maxime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Africa; Identification; PCR RFLP; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus); Second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2)

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; TESTING METHOD; TICK;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TICK; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHIPICEPHALUS;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 77249107750     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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