Detection and discrimination of Loa loa, Mansonella perstans and Wuchereria bancrofti by PCR-RFLP and nested-PCR of ribosomal DNA ITS1 region

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 282-286

  Jiménez, Maribel ^a   González, Luis Miguel ^a   Carranza, Cristina ^b   Bailo, Begoña ^a   Pérez Ayala, Ana ^c   Muro, Antonio ^d   Pérez Arellano, José Luis ^b   Gárate, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Differential detection; ITS1; Loa loa; Mansonella perstans; Nested PCR; PCR RFLP; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FILARIASIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LOA LOA; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); NEGRO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HUMANS; LOA; LOIASIS; MANSONELLA; MANSONELLIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

LOA LOA; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 78650541997     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.019     Document Type: Article

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