Detection of selected intestinal helminths and protozoa at hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia using multiplex realtime PCR

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 434-442

  Basuni, M ^a   Mohamed, Z ^b   Ahmad, M ^a   Zakaria, N Z ^b   Noordin, R ^a  

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

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; FECES; GENETICS; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUKARYOTA; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALAYSIA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84866915245     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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