Leishmania parasite detection and quantification using PCR-ELISA

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1074-1080

  Kobets, Tetyana ^a   Badalová, Jana ^a   Grekov, Igor ^a   Havelková, Helena ^a   Svobodová, Milena ^b   Lipoldová, Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77956697927     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.68     Document Type: Article

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