Application of the SYBR Green real-time HRM PCR technique in the differentiation of the Babesia canis canis protozoa isolated in the areas of eastern Poland

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1253-1256

  Adaszek, Łukasz ^a   Winiarczyk, Stanisław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA CANIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENES, RRNA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

BABESIA CANIS CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77953278020     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1784-3     Document Type: Article

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