Allelic sequence heterozygosity in single Giardia parasites

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ankarklev, Johan ^a   Svärd, Staffan G ^a   Lebbad, Marianne ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROMANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOZOITE;

ALLELES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHOZOITES;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84860362637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-65     Document Type: Article

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