Development of Assays Using Hexokinase and Phosphoglucomutase Gene Sequences That Distinguish Strains of Leishmania tropica from Different Zymodemes and Microsatellite Clusters and Their Application to Palestinian Foci of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Azmi, Kifaya ^a,b   Schonian, Gabriele ^b   Schnur, Lionel F ^c   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^a   Ereqat, Suheir ^a   Abdeen, Ziad ^a  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEXOKINASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTYPE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ARABS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEXOKINASE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84884692769     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002464     Document Type: Article

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