Development of a multiplexed Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay to identify common members of the subgenera Culex (Culex) and Culex (Phenacomyia) in Guatemala

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-291

  Kent, Rebekah J ^a   Deus, Stephen ^a   Williams, Martin ^a   Savage, Harry M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CULEX; CULEX CORONATOR; CULEX INTERROGATOR; CULEX LACTATOR; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX THRIAMBUS; GUATEMALA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; DNA; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GUATEMALA; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS;

EID: 77955641521     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0077     Document Type: Article

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