Single-tube real-time PCR assay for differentiation of Ixodes affinis and Ixodes scapularis

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-52

  Wright, Chelsea L ^a   Hynes, Wayne L ^a   White, Breanna T ^a   Marshall, Mindy N ^a   Gaff, Holly D ^a   Gauthier, David T ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification; Ixodes affinis; Ixodes scapularis; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; NUCLEAR RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IXODES; IXODES AFFINIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NYMPH; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES AFFINIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; IXODES; LARVA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888351800     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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