Comparison of Leishmania OligoC-TesT PCR with conventional and real-time PCR for diagnosis of canine Leishmania infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3325-3330

  Carson, Connor ^a   Quinnell, Rupert J ^b   Holden, Jennifer ^a,e   Garcez, Lourdes M ^c   Deborggraeve, Stijn ^d   Courtenay, Orin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DOG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCHROMATOGRAPHIC DIPSTICK DETECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM;

EID: 77956821964     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02331-09     Document Type: Article

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