Evaluation and improvement of two PCR targets in molecular typing of clinical samples of Leishmania patients

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-41

  Roelfsema, Jeroen H ^a   Nozari, Nahid ^a   Herremans, Tineke ^a   Kortbeek, Laetitia M ^a   Pinelli, Elena ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; ITS1; Leishmania; Mini exon; PCR; Real time

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIA VIANNIA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

BONE MARROW; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN;

VIANNIA;

EID: 78650530722     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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