Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA in nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) from the Andean region of Colombia

Leprosy Review

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 424-431

  Cardona Castro, Nora ^a   Beltran J C ^a   Ortiz Bernal, A ^b   Vissa, V ^c  

^a Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CES   (Colombia)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOPSY; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EAR LOBE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; BIOPSY; COLOMBIA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77649211940     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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