Molecular detection of Setaria tundra (Nematoda: Filarioidea) and an unidentified filarial species in mosquitoes in Germany

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Czajka, Christina ^a,b   Becker, Norbert ^a,b   Poppert, Sven ^c   Jöst, Hanna ^a,b   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^c   Krüger, Andreas ^d  

^a German Mosquito Control Association KABS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culicidae; filariae; Germany; mtDNA marker; Setaria tundra

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 12S;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DIROFILARIA; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; GERMANY; INFECTION RATE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SETARIA TUNDRA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; GERMANY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SETARIA NEMATODE; SETARIASIS;

AEDES VEXANS; ANOPHELES CLAVIGER; AVES; CULICIDAE; DIROFILARIA; FILARIOIDEA; NEMATODA; OCHLEROTATUS STICTICUS; SETARIA TUNDRA;

EID: 84855604864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-14     Document Type: Article

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