Molecular xenomonitoring of Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens in mosquitoes from north-eastern Italy by real-time PCR coupled with melting curve analysis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Latrofa, Maria Stefania ^a   Montarsi, Fabrizio ^b   Ciocchetta, Silvia ^b   Annoscia, Giada ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,c   Ravagnan, Silvia ^b   Capelli, Gioia ^b   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dirofilaria immitis; Dirofilaria repens; Mosquitoes; Real time PCR; Surveillance; Vector

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AEDES VEXANS; ARTICLE; CULEX MODESTUS; CULEX PIPIENS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; FEMALE; ITALY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WEST NILE FEVER; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DIROFILARIASIS; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

AEDES VEXANS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; FILARIOIDEA; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS;

EID: 84859886379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-76     Document Type: Article

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