Quantification of Leishmania infantum DNA in females, eggs and larvae of Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a   Latrofa, Maria Stefania ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EGG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; ITALY; LARVA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROGENY; PROMASTIGOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; ITALY; LARVA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 79953881351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-56     Document Type: Article

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