Serial quantitative PCR assay for detection, species discrimination, and quantification of Leishmania spp. in human samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3892-3904

  Weirather, Jason L ^a,b   Jeronimo, Selma M B ^c   Gautam, Shalini ^d   Sundar, Shyam ^d   Kang, Mitchell ^b   Kurtz, Melissa A ^b   Haque, Rashidul ^e   Schriefer, Albert ^f   Talhari, Sinésio ^g   Carvalho, Edgar M ^f   Donelson, John E ^b   Wilson, Mary E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^g Tropical Medicine Foundation of the Amazon   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VALIDITY;

BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARASITOLOGY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 80355137189     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.r00764-11     Document Type: Article

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