Design of primer pairs for species-specific diagnosis of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi using PCR;Construção de pares de primers para a detecção espécie-específica de leishmania (leishmania) infantum chagasi por PCR

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinaria

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 304-307

  da Silveira Neto, Osvaldo José ^a   Duarte, Sabrina Castilho ^a   da Costa, Hérika Xavier ^a   Linhares, Guido Fontgalland Coelho ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

18s rRNA gene; Kala azar; L. infantum chagasi; Molecular diagnosis; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

DNA PRIMERS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867461407     PISSN: 0103846X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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