Tunisian Toxoplasma gondii strains genotyping by the use of AK69 marker

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Boughattas, Sonia ^a   Ben Abdallah, Rym ^a   Siala, Emna ^a   Ben Abda, Imen ^a   Souissi, Olfa ^a   Aoun, Karim ^a   Bouratbine, Aida ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

AK69; high sensitivity; mixed genotype; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TUNISIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; TUNISIA;

EID: 80052021748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-167     Document Type: Article

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