Identification of Leishmania spp. by molecular amplification and DNA sequencing analysis of a fragment of rRNA internal transcribed spacer 2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3143-3149

  De Almeida, Marcos E ^a,b   Steurer, Francis J ^a   Koru, Ozgur ^a,b,c   Herwaldt, Barbara L ^a   Pieniazek, Norman J ^a   Da Silva, Alexandre J ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 80052189777     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01177-11     Document Type: Article

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