Comparison of short-term and long-term protocols for stabilization and preservation of RNA and DNA of Leishmania, Trypanosoma, and Plasmodium

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-73

  Basiye, Frank L ^a,c   Schoone, Gerard J ^b   Beld, Marcel ^b   Minnaar, Rene ^d   Ngeranwa, Joseph N ^c   Wasunna, Monique K ^d   Schallig, Henk D F H ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angero NA from Mallinckrodt Baker USA; Conventional PCR; DNA; L3 buffer; Leishmania; Plasmodium; RNA; RT NASBA; RT PCR; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA 18S;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STABILITY; GENETIC STABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STABILITY; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; TRYPANOSOMA;

BUFFERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 78649970155     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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