Oligonucleotide based magnetic bead capture of onchocerca volvulus dna for pcr pool screening of vector black flies

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Gopal, Hemavathi ^a   Hassan, Hassan K ^b   Rodríguez Pérez, Mario A ^a   Toé, Laurent D ^c   Lustigman, Sara ^d   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Multi disease Surveillance Centre   (Burkina Faso)

^d NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE; HELMINTH DNA; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LARVA; MAGNET; MAGNETIC BEAD; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SIMULIIDAE; ANIMAL; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAGNETISM; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; MAGNETICS; MASS SCREENING; MICROSPHERES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84863676742     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001712     Document Type: Article

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