Detecting and quantifying mites in domestic dust: A novel application for real-time PCR

Environment International

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-24

  Roussel, Sandrine ^a,b   Reboux, Gabriel ^a,b   Naegele, Alexandre ^b   Martinez, Jorge ^c   Vacheyrou, Mallory ^b   Scherer, Emeline ^a,b   Millon, Laurence ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allergen; Dermatophagoides; Environment; House dust mites; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

DETECTION METHOD; DUST; MITE;

ACARUS SIRO; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GLYCYPHAGUS DOMESTICUS; HOUSE DUST; LEPIDOGLYPHUS DESTRUCTOR; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84875076424     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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