Triplex PCR using new primers for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-238

  Rahumatullah, Anizah ^a   Khoo, Boon Yin ^a   Noordin, Rahmah ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE INFORMM   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Body fluids; Mouse organs; New primers; Toxoplasma gondii; Triplex PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B1 GENE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE; HEMM GENE; HUMAN; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HEART; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

MUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84861480745     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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