Development of a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for sensitive detection and quantitation of Babesia microti infection

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2299-2306

  Bloch, Evan M ^a   Lee, Tzong Hae ^b   Krause, Peter J ^b   Telford III, Sam R ^b   Montalvo, Lani ^b   Chafets, Daniel ^b   Usmani Brown, Sahar ^b   Lepore, Timothy J ^b   Busch, Michael P ^b  

^a BLOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA MICROTI INFECTION; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; INOCULATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEROZOITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; TROPHOZOITE; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; MICE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885851833     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12098     Document Type: Article

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