Molecular differentiation of cryptic stage of Echinococcus granulosus and Taenia species from faecal and environmental samples

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 253-256

  Pan, Diganta ^a   De, Sumanta ^a   Bera, Asit Kumar ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Subhashis ^a   Das, Subrata Kumar ^a   Bhattacharya, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Echinococcus granulosus; Environmental samples; PCR RFLP; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GENOMIC DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CESTODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENVIRONMENT; FECES ANALYSIS; METACESTODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TAENIA;

EID: 77951734263     PISSN: 19957645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1995-7645(10)60061-2     Document Type: Article

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