Evaluation of the performance of selected in-house and commercially available PCR and real-time PCR assays for the detection of Leishmania DNA in canine clinical samples

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 419-424

  Andreadou, Margarita ^a   Liandris, Emmanouil ^a   Kasampalidis, Ioannis N ^a   Taka, Styliani ^a   Antoniou, Maria ^b   Ntais, Pantelis ^b   Vaiopoulou, Anna ^c   Theodoropoulos, Georgios ^a   Gazouli, Maria ^c   Ikonomopoulos, John ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Leishmania; Molecular detection; PCR

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 84864027021     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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